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-worth

-worth suffix: denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term.

Suffix

-worth

  1. Denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term.
    • 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.1941, Betty Swallow, private correspondance, quoted in 2009, Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal, University of Missouri Press, page 177
    • [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.1951, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, page 104

Origin of -worth

From worth.

Questions about -worth

What does -worth mean?
-worth means denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term.
What part of speech is -worth?
-worth is a suffix.

Words near -worth in the dictionary

  1. -wise
  2. -witz
  3. -woman
  4. -women
  5. -work
  6. -worth
  7. -worthy
  8. -x
  9. -x-
  10. -xaban
  11. -xeny

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