pennyworth in English

noun
1
an amount of something that may be bought for a penny.
a pennyworth of chips

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1. Wesley, where a person unknown to others, seeking no praise, and looking to no reward but the Applaudings of his own conscience, bought a pennyworth of parsnips weekly, and on them