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ha'p'orth

/ ˈɪəθ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of halfpennyworth
  2. informal.
    a person considered as specified

    daft ha'p'orth

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I'll slip up the stairs there, and maybe I can get a glimpse of 'em through the door an' no one a ha'p'orth the wiser.

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And not a ha'p'orth of sense, at least there's no making out the sense.

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"Innocent we be, but where the Deemster comes there's not a ha'p'orth to choose between you and us."

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I'm deeply concerned that there's an assumption that simply by installing simple measures of preventing, shall we say, radical speakers from coming onto campus, we're going to make a ha'p'orth of difference to this issue.

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"If ye cud jist spare us a ha'p'orth ov milk to keep th' life in th' chile fur th' night?" he pleaded.

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