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bawbee

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baw⋅bee

  [baw-bee, baw-bee]
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–noun
1. an old Scottish bullion coin, originally worth about three halfpence of English coin, later sixpence.
2. a halfpenny.
3. anything of little value.
Origin:
1535–45; named after Alexander Orok, 16th-century mintmaster, laird of Sillebawby
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