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pennyworth

Part of Speech: noun

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            1.                                             A                                                           penny's                                                         worth;                                                         as                                                         much                                                         as                                                         may                                                         be                                                         bought                                                         for                                                           a                                                         penny.                                    

            2.                                           Hence:                                                         The                                                         full                                                         value                                                         of                                                           one's                                                         penny                                                         expended;                                                         due                                                         return                                                         for                                                         money                                                           laid                                                         out;                                                           a                                                         good                                                         bargain;                                                           a                                                         bargain.                                    

            3.                                             A                                                         small                                                         quantity;                                                           a                                                         trifle.                                    

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The gleanings of the year may find you in skimmed milk and hasty pudding three times a day, and you may enjoy between whiles the delectable amusements of mending your husband's stockings at one time, and serving a neighbour with a pennyworth of snuff at another. - "Jane Talbot", Charles Brockden Brown.
For an empty phrase and a pennyworth of wax they would extort a heavy price. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.
Mrs. Tiddy, the milkwoman, ran home declaring that, in the act of delivering the usual two pennyworth at the hospital, she had seen the ghost of the Major himself, in full regimentals, in the act of assaulting his own statue; which, sure enough, was found next morning scattered all over the floor. - "The Mayor of Troy", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

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