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# pennyworth

noun (a pennyworth, pennyworths — UK, old-fashioned)

«pennyworth» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK, old-fashioned) The amount of something you could buy for one penny: «a pennyworth of sweets». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#m1)
2. (idiom) «Put in your two pennyworth» (UK) or «two cents' worth» (US) means to give your opinion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#m2)
3. A small amount. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history lessons and older British stories, children bought a pennyworth of sweets, milk or bread. Pronounced PEN-ee-wurth or «PEN-uth». Today the idiom about giving your opinion is common: «Can I put in my two pennyworth?»

### Examples

- She bought a pennyworth of toffees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x1)
- In 1900 a pennyworth of milk was a big jug. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x2)
- Everyone wanted to add their two pennyworth to the argument. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x3)
- The boy spent his last penny on a pennyworth of sherbet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x4)
- Not a pennyworth of difference! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x5)
- Grandad remembers buying a pennyworth of chips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/#x6)

### Note

Old-fashioned word; also written «penn'orth». In maths, «a pennyworth» means whatever 1p buys; if one sweet costs a halfpenny, a pennyworth is 2 sweets.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pennyworth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pennyworth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pennyworth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pennyworth.html) on Mova free.