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1An amount of something that may be bought for a penny.
‘a pennyworth of chips’
‘All of them, appropriately for a bank, contributed their pennyworth.’
‘He smiled at Chrissy through the car window as he squirted the last pennyworth in and twisted the petrol cap back on.’
‘The prosecutor told the court that the defendant had purchased two pennyworth of sweets and then went round the side of the stall and ‘gave it a push’ sending the stall crashing to the ground.’
‘Quickly I gave my order, ‘a loaf, a pot of jam and a pennyworth of sweets.’’
‘If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.’
‘But then I never have found a conspiracy theory worth wrapping six penn'orth of chips in.’
‘I think it's high time we called a halt to all those penn'orths of tar we've been applying to the ship.’
‘It seems quite possible that the same readers bought both pennyworths.’
‘In any mind which has a pennyworth of imagination it produces a good attitude towards foreigners.’
‘Meter charges for Wood Street and the Square will not make a pennyworth of difference.’
1.1archaic Value for one's money.
2one's pennyworthA person's contribution to a discussion.
‘Bob would have to put his two pennyworth in first’
‘My two pennyworth on this is that the policemen must have been pretty bored (or Anthony was wearing his dustmask and they thought he was a danger to the public).’
‘My two pennyworth: perhaps some of the difficulties involved work as a kind of sacrifice of time and energy to increase the sense of dedication to the working?’
‘She adds her own pennyworth.’
‘He added: ‘Once you get into the realms of private property we are waiting for people to come along and put their two pennyworth in.’’
‘It is something I am quite interested in so I thought my two pennyworth might help.’