shillingsworth

English

Alternative forms

• shillingworth

Etymology

From shilling +‎ -s- +‎ -worth.

Noun

shillingsworth (plural shillingsworths)

1. (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.