Meaning of -worth | Babel Free

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Denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term.

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“Well! he's doing well, now, partaking of a little boiled chicken, and an egg or so, while the average Britisher has a hell of a job to get a shillingworth of meat a week and has to queue up for hours for eggs.”

“[S]he alone, to the best of my knowledge, has ridden far and fast in all weathers in the passenger seat, which is not a seat at all but the aforesaid oil tank, all 3½-gallonsworth.”

“I sway in my uncertainty; should I drain this and go? or seek another pintsworth of that impenetrable mystery?”

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