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penn'orth

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Noun1.penn'orth - the amount that can be bought for a penny
pennyworth
worth - an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline"


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She bakes such stunning murphies, we'll have a penn'orth each for tea.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
"What college," pursues Bagnet, "could you set up in life--with two penn'orth of white lime--a penn'orth of fuller's earth--a ha'porth of sand--and the rest of the change out of sixpence in money?
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
I put that enlightened object before him, and now he can turn his honest halfpenny by the three penn'orth a week.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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