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What does pennyworth mean?

A pennyworth is as much as you can buy for a penny, as in I’ll have a pennyworth of licorice, sir. It can also be used in a figurative way to mean a very small amount, as in He doesn’t have a pennyworth of common sense, or a bargain, as in We can get it for a pennyworth!Pennyworth is an old-fashioned word that’s rarely used literally, due to the fact that nothing costs a penny anymore. Its figurative use is also uncommon.Pennyworth is sometimes abbreviated as ���Բ�’o���ٳ�. It’s most closely associated with its use in the U.K. Although the word penny is often used in the U.S. as an informal name for the one-cent coin officially known as the cent, the penny in pennyworth referred for much of the word’s history to the former British penny (pluralized as pence), which was worth one twelfth of a shilling. The related term halfpennyworth (sometimes abbreviated as ��’p’o���ٳ�) refers to an amount that could be bought for a halfpenny.Example: My great grandmother used to tell me stories about going to the shop and buying a pennyworth of candy.