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worth Worth worð worþ English Etymology From en worth. Suffix Denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term. 1941, Betty Swallow, private correspondance, quoted in 2009, Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal, University of Missouri Press (9780826271808), page 177 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. en 1951 Henry Sturmey; H. Walter Staner The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage 104 [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. en 2005 Peter Finch; Grahame Davies The Big Book of Cardiff: New Writing from Europe's Youngest Capital Poetry Wales Press I sway in my uncertainty; should I drain this and go? or seek another pintsworth of that impenetrable mystery? Usage notes Usually suffixes to the genitive form of nouns, which means that there is a connecting -s- infix between the noun and the suffix (en bottlesworth, en yearsworth). Monetary amounts such as en pennyworth seem to be an exception to this. Derived terms en Anagrams en hortw throw whort wroth