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paltry
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[ˈpɒltri], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- (of an amount) very small or meagre
(e.g: she would earn a paltry £33 more a month)
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Origin
:
mid 16th century: apparently based on dialect pelt ‘rubbish, especially rags’; compare with Low German paltrig ‘ragged’
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