Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun As much as a penny will buy.
- noun A small amount; a modicum.
- noun A bargain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as is bought for a penny; hence, a small quantity.
- noun Value for the money given; hence, a bar-gain, whether in buying or selling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
- noun Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.
- noun A small quantity; a trifle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The amount that can be bought by a
penny . - noun A small
worth orquantity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the amount that can be bought for a penny
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Examples
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The 31-year-old had three months earlier bought a "pennyworth" of arsenic from a local chemist explaining that she wanted it to "kill bugs."
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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"His life -- the highwayman's -- has, generally, the most mirth and the least care in it of any man's breathing, and all he deals for is clear profit: he has that point of good conscience, that he always sells as he buys, a good pennyworth, which is something rare, since he trades with so small a stock.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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"pennyworth," occurs as the rendering of the Roman denarius.
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I was going to add my pennyworth, but CaptainBeaky and Jeff Wood have beaten me to it. on June 24, 2008 at 9: 48 pm | Reply nightjack
A Particularly Cruel and Cleaver Trick. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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I really have to argue on this point - and chuck in my own two-pennyworth.
Dirty Sexy Poverty juliette 2009
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I really have to argue on this point - and chuck in my own two-pennyworth.
Archive 2009-01-01 juliette 2009
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Then London added its pennyworth, with a Home Office minister, Lord West, telling of "another great plot building up again" and a "huge threat" from al-Qaeda.
Simon Jenkins: America, Cowering to an Imaginary Enemy, Is Not the Country I Once Knew 2009
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If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
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However, for those of you interested in carrying on the fight the BBC is running a sort of poll on the issue, so I suppose it might be worth adding our four pennyworth.
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Clive, it's been a great one to follow and although I like you put in my two pennyworth, I had to bite my tongue very hard not to get mad.....
E-learning: the fad that's lasted 30 years Clive Shepherd 2009
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