Meaning of bawbee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
   Scotland, historical
2. A copper; a small amount of money.
   figuratively

Examples

“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.”

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