Pittance

//ˈpɪtəns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  2. 2
    an inadequate payment wordnet
  3. 3
    A meagre allowance of money or wages.

    "In the very prime of life, Mr. Glentworth found every prospect gone; he had only a meagre pittance, compared to his former expenditure; but he had neither the habits nor the opportunity of increasing it."

  4. 4
    A small amount.

    "The former residents of Fraguas, who sold up for a pittance, have swung behind the resettlement, happy to see life return to the narrow lanes where they grew up."

Etymology

From Middle English pitaunce, from Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *pietāntia, from Latin pietās (“piety”).

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