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Examples
“I particularly got a kick out of him working the word "groatsworth" into the narrative, I can only imagine how small a portion of the audience gets that reference.”
“He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.”
“* Robert Greene, A groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of repentance.”
“Eating your groatsworth of _mou en civet_, fleshpots of Egypt, elbowed by belching cabmen.”
“-- He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.”
“To the Abbey not a groatsworth of damage will I do.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘groatsworth’.
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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kenspeckle's Words
kenspeckle, milquetoast, effluvium, kaboom, maelstrom, ennui, alpenglow, defenestration, schadenfreude, autochthonous, obstreperous, lachrymose and 124 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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brtom -- He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9 Jan 5, 2007
kenspeckle According to the OED, "As much as is bought or sold for a groat." In the figurative sense, mind you, that would be "a very small amount." Dec 9, 2006