- 1
Penn'orth is a British informal of pennyworth: what you could once buy for a penny, or a very small amount of something. You will hardly hear it for shopping now; a penny buys almost nothing, and the word feels old. What still lives is the set phrase your two penn'orth — your little bit of opinion, whether anyone asked for it or not. It is the British cousin of American your two cents. You may also meet not a penn'orth of difference, meaning no real difference at all. The stands for letters that have dropped out in speech (pennyworth → penn'orth). It is spoken and , not a word for formal writing, and many younger British speakers would not use it except as a joke or in that opinion phrase.
一便士的分量(英式口語;your two penn'orth 指兩句意見)
組成A shortened spoken form of pennyworth: penny + worth (what you get for one penny). The apostrophe marks the missing letters.
同家族的字
- pennypenn'orth is pennyworth said quickly
- pennyworththe full form of this word
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。