Definition of "pennyworth" [pen•ny•worth]

• As much as a penny will buy. (noun)
• A small amount; a modicum. (noun)
• A bargain: got my pennyworth at that price. (noun)

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• "The 31-year-old had three months earlier bought a "pennyworth" of arsenic from a local chemist explaining that she wanted it to "kill bugs.""
• ""His life -- the highwayman's -- has, generally, the most mirth and the least care in it of any man's breathing, and all he deals for is clear profit: he has that point of good conscience, that he always sells as he buys, a good pennyworth, which is something rare, since he trades with so small a stock."
• ""pennyworth," occurs as the rendering of the Roman denarius."