shillingsworth
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From shilling + -s- + -worth.
Noun
[edit]shillingsworth (plural shillingsworths)
- (historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.
- 1873, The Fortnightly Review, volume 20, page 507:
- In the voltaic battery, from a shillingsworth of chemical force we can obtain nearly twelve-pennyworth of electricity; in an electroplating vat, from the twelve-penceworth of electricity we get a shillingsworth of chemical force […]
- 1914, The Cambridge Magazine, volume 4, page 121:
- It is a pleasure to handle these tasteful little Volumes, whose covers are not smeared with that unwelcome gilt which so often repels one in the case of similar shillingsworths.