Definition of "yennep"
yennep
noun
plural yenneps
(obsolete, costermongers) A penny.
Quotations
To discover the kind of entertainment, a lad near me and my companion was asked "if there was any flash dancing." With a knowing wink the boy answered "Lots! show their legs and all, prime!" and immediately the boy followed up this information by a request for a "yennep" to get a "tib of occabot."
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the "Penny Gaff", page 41