English Explanatory Dictionary

not worth a Continental

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation.

Word forms

not worth a Continental

Etymology

From the rapid depreciation of Continental currency, an early American money that became worthless towards the end of the American Revolutionary War.

Synonyms

bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky duffing floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds fucking garbagey good-for-naught good-for-nothing goodless ineffectual invaluable jabberwocky junky mouldy mucid naughty no-account no good / no-good nonvaluable not worth a damn not worth a dime not worth a plug nickel not worth a brass farthing not worth a cent not worth a cress not worth a curse not worth a Continental not worth a farthing not worth hell room not worth a nickel not worth a penny not worth salt not worth a whistle nought of no value pissass punk putid rubbishly rubbishy sixpenny scabbed screwy scummy shand shit shitey shitstained shitty-ass
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