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PENNYWORTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pennyworth mean?
• PENNYWORTH (noun)
The noun PENNYWORTH has 1 sense:
1. the amount that can be bought for a penny
Familiarity information: PENNYWORTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The amount that can be bought for a penny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
penn'orth; pennyworth
Hypernyms ("pennyworth" is a kind of...):
worth (an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value)
Context examples
The pudding at that shop was made of currants, and was rather a special pudding, but was dear, twopennyworth not being larger than a pennyworth of more ordinary pudding.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was in it two years ago, when it was Lady Lascelle's, and prefer it to almost any I know in London, and certainly she will then feel, to use a vulgar phrase, that she has got her pennyworth for her penny.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My own exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf and a pennyworth of milk, I provided myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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