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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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pennyworthpen‧ny‧worth /ˈpenɪwəθ $ -wərθ/ noun [singular] old-fashioned PECthe amount of something that you could buy with a penny in the pastpennyworth of a pennyworth of sweets
Examples from the Corpus
pennyworth• But I really wanted my pennyworth.
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