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halfpennyworth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
halfpennyworth \halfpennyworth\ n. the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny.
Syn: ha'p'orth.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) As much as could be bought for a halfpenny (pre- or post-decimalisation). 2 (context British informal English) A negligible amount.
WordNet
n. the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny [syn: ha'p'orth]
Usage examples of "halfpennyworth".
He could ride before he could mount a bicycle, and had a pony of his own when he was five, and he could still remember riding the pony into the village to buy a halfpennyworth of sherbet powder from the sweetshop of old Mr.
Then again the Company had done her proud - no royal dockyard’s niggling over a halfpennyworth of tar - and her sumptuous refit, her new sails, new copper, beautiful Manilla cordage, had brought back much of her youth: it had not dealt with certain deep-seated structural defects, the result of age and the Marengo’s handling of her, but for the moment all was well, and she raced southwards as though she had a galleon in chase.
Then again the Company had done her proud - no royal dockyard's niggling over a halfpennyworth of tar - and her sumptuous refit, her new sails, new copper, beautiful Manilla cordage, had brought back much of her youth: it had not dealt with certain deep-seated structural defects, the result of age and the Marengo's handling of her, but for the moment all was well, and she raced southwards as though she had a galleon in chase.