pittance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

词形变化

pittances plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pittance payment pittancer

词源

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