ha'p'orth
Britishnoun
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a variant spelling of halfpennyworth
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informal a person considered as specified
daft ha'p'orth
Example Sentences
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The poor workman blames a ha’p’orth of tar.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019
Whether starvation comes this year or the beginning of next does not make a ha'p'orth of difference.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, again, they buy their goods in small portions; for instance, their coal by the ha'p'orth or their wood by the farthing's-worth, which, in fact, works out at a great profit to the dealers.
From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard
Hasn't meself been looking over the bed, and under the bed, and in the bed, for the matter of that, and divil a ha'p'orth of breeches is there to the fore at all:—I'm bothered entirely!”
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
Oh, purshuin' to the ha'p'orth I can settle till I recover o' this murdherin' colic!
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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