halfpennyworth


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halfpennyworth

(ˈheɪpəθ) or

ha'p'orth

n
1. an amount that may be bought for a halfpenny
2. a trifling or very small amount
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Noun1.halfpennyworth - the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny
ha'p'orth
worth - an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline"
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Newman Noggs did not say that he had hunted up the old furniture they saw, from attic and cellar; or that he had taken in the halfpennyworth of milk for tea that stood upon a shelf, or filled the rusty kettle on the hob, or collected the woodchips from the wharf, or begged the coals.
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That's because haporth is a contraction of halfpennyworth. 6.
15 Geordie words and where they came from... THE ORIGINS OF 15 NORTH EAST WORDS, AS EXPLAINED BY AUTHOR PAUL ANTHONY JONES
HALFPENNYWORTH (haypth) as much as is sold for or is worth a halfpenny (hape-nee), a compressed British regional pronunciation.
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Notoriously Falstaff takes a mere halfpennyworth of bread to an intolerable deal of sack.
Joan Thirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500-1760

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