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penny gaff
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Penny Gaff
The term applied to a low-class theatre, in allusion to the first Drury Lane Theatre, built on the site of a famous cockpit. Gaff was but another name for a cockpit, expressing as it did in various languages the iron hook, fork, or spur with which the cocks were goaded when they showed a reluctance to fight.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of penny gaff in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of penny gaff in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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