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bawbee [baw to rhyme with saw + bee] noun a halfpenny, any coin of small value 18-.
bawbees coins, money in general la19-. etymology: Scots; probably from Sillebawbe ‘the land and territorial designation of Alexander Orrock, sixteenth century master of the mint’; attested by Grose and Egan (1823) as ‘Scotch Cant’, SR