Definition of "ha'p'orth" [ha'p'orth]

• Halfpennyworth (noun)
• A foolish person. (noun)

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• "What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?"
• "It has all the poetry ascribed to Virgil, and the Commentaries of Servius and Landini, which are so voluminous that the page looks like a ha'p'orth of sack to an intolerable deal of very dry bread."
• ""He don't mane a ha'p'orth o 'harum, but jist now he's not quite in his right moind.""