hoursworth

hoursworth

English

Etymology

From hour +‎ -s- +‎ -worth.

Noun

hoursworth

1. The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one hour.
   • 1984, Alan Coren, Bumf, Robson Books Limited

     This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees.

   • 1987, Film

     Sir, Despite the increased cost, we do like to flesh out our feature film programmes to give our patrons a full two hoursworth.

   • 1994, Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, David Hamilton, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction →ISBN

     Weightless as angels, we float an aimless celestial hoursworth through spectacular submarinity