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单词 pounds worth
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pounds worthn.

Brit. /ˈpaʊn(d)zwəθ/, U.S. /ˈpaʊn(d)zˌwərθ/
Forms:

α. Old English pundes weorð, late Middle English poundys worth, late Middle English powndis worthe, 1500s– pounds worth, 1600s– pound's worth, 1700s 1900s– pounds-worth, 1800s– pounds' worth, 1900s– poundsworth; also Scottish pre-1700– pundis worth, pre-1700– pundiswortht.

β. Middle English poundeworth, Middle English poundeworthe, Middle English pownde worthe, Middle English pownd worþ, Middle English 1600s– pound worth.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pound n.1, worth n.1
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of pound n.1 + worth n.1 (compare sense 1a(a) at that entry and quots. below). In β. forms < pound n.1 + worth n.1 Compare post-classical Latin librata , in the same sense (see librate n.).In origin probably a development of the Old English construction in which worth is an adjective (compare worth adj. 1a(a)); compare:OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxx. §2. 332 Gyf se að þonne forðcume, ceose se man, þe þær betihtled syg, swæðer he wylle, swa anfeald ordal swa pundes weorðne að.c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 683 I hadde leuere than twenty pound worth lond.
With preceding quantifier: as much of something as is valued at or may be bought for a specified (or roughly quantified) number of pounds. In early use also spec. †a piece of land worth a specified number of pounds a year (obsolete) .
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > amount of specific value > specific
pennyworthOE
halfpennywortha1035
shillingswortha1325
three-halfpennyworthc1440
sixpennyworthc1450
pounds worthc1460
groatsworth1562
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penny piece1601
threepennyworth1617
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two pennyworth1851
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OE Will of Wulfgeat (Sawyer 1534) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 54 Þæt is þonne þæt he geann ærest Gode his sawelscættas, þæt is I hid æt Tærdebicgan & I pund penega, & VI & twentig freotmonna for his sawle, & into Wigeracæstre an bryþen mealtes healf of Dunnintune healf of Cylleshale, & into sancte Æþelbrihte healfes pundes weorð & into sancte Guðlace healfes pundes weorð.
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 170 (MED) If oony þynge lacke to be performed x pownde worthe [L. siquid defuerit ad perficiendas decem libratas], I schall performe hit.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 668 (MED) Of the yifte of Robert, Erle of leyceter, thre pounde-worthe of lond in Halso.
a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) 974 (MED) He haþ gyf vs by band An c pownd worþ of land.
1501 Marriage Indenture in Argyll Mun. (MS.) 27 Mar. Ane hundretht pundiswortht of land of ald extent within the saidis lordschippis of Lorne and Ergile.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 39 Having Amalgamiz'd many pounds worth of Gold with Mercury.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 52 The whole Heard was near Two Hundred and Fifty, about Forty died: They all acknowledged that he did them above a Hundred Pound's Worth of Good.
1783 J. Berridge Let. 3 Oct. in Wks. (1864) 430 Mr. John Raymond's great house, with his woolhouse..and two thousand pounds worth of wool.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxiv. 330 I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!
1844 Punch 7 206 A pound's worth of silver in a card-purse.
1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes 127 Sir Francis Beekman sent me 10 pounds worth of orchids every day.
1999 Bella 25 May 45/1 A few pounds worth of food is a drop in the ocean when you think of the store's profits.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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