[f. as prec. + -WORTH.] As much as is bought or sold for a farthing, a very small amount. Also fig.
c. 1325. Poem Times Edw. II., 100, in Pol. Songs (Camden), 328. A prest … That can noht a ferthing worth of god.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 515. Þe kyng may not take fro hem an halfpeny ne ferþing worþ, siþ alle þes ben temporal goodis.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 360. A ferthyng-worth of fynkelsede · for fastinge-daies.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 519. A farthingworth of bruised Licoras.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (1840), II. v. 108. Though to themselves not one farthing’s worth of service.
