shillingsworth

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From shilling +‎ -s- +‎ -worth.

Noun

shillingsworth (plural shillingsworths)

  1. (historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.
    • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
      'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
    • 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.
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