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English
Etymology
From Scots bawbee.
Pronunciation
Noun
bawbee (plural bawbees)
- (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
- (figuratively) A copper; a small amount of money.
2007 July 12, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian:He said there were already plans for a tramline, and a museum of the theatre. Folk should not, he implied, waste their bawbees on the devil's spinning wheel.
Scots
Etymology
Probably shortened from Sillebawbe, the territory of which Alexander Orrok, Scottish master of the mint in the 16th century, was laird.
Pronunciation
Noun
bawbee (plural bawbees)
- (historical) bawbee, halfpenny
1823, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:‘And muckle they hae made o't—the bankrupt body, Sandie Lawson, hasna paid them a bawbee of four terms' rent.’- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- money
- dowry
1803, Alexander Boswell, Jenny's Bawbee:A' clatty, squinting through a glass, / He girn'd, ‘I'faith a bonnie lass!’ / He thought to win, wi' front o' brass, / Jenny's bawbee.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)