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- noun obsolete, UK A
penny 'sworth , or an amount of anything one could buy for a penny. The term was used proverbially through the 19th century to refer to "a very small, or the least, amount." It was often contracted as penn'orth.
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Examples
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Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.
Intimate History 2010
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A retired officer from the old GMP force adds their two pennorth
Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.
Intimate History 2010
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We have agreed that my two pennorth should have read 'once the cock regains control of the braincell...'
Same, except different Ms Robinson 2009
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Mrs Gwyllim a pennorth, I chose rather to go again with her into the Bath, and then I met with an axident.
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"I've only had seventeen pints of ale and three pennorth of gin."
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson
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Patrick-street, Dublin -- the lady who used to boast of her "bag of farthin's," and regale herself before each encounter with a pennorth of the "droppin's o 'the cock."
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous
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We came out gipsies of the deepest dye, for we had got a pennorth of walnut stain from Mr. Jameson the builder, and mixed with water – the water we had brought in a medicine-bottle – it was a prime disguise.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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'There's plenty' ud think they'd got their two-pennorth to see this on the screen o 'a picture-show at' ome, Jock. '
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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Not two pennorth of jewellery among a dozen of them.
Act III 1903
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