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
And something out of heaven was saying to him, 'It's the Lord's day, Jannie; they'll not get a ha'p'orth.'
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
And not a ha'p'orth of sense, at least there's no making out the sense.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Perhaps at bottom some coolness of temperament protected her; nobody, at any rate, suspected that it had anything to do with Isaac, or that she cared a ha'p'orth for so lugubrious and hypocritical a husband.
From The Story of Bessie Costrell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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