English Dictionary

bawbee

/bɔːˈbiː/

noun

(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.

I found a bawbee on the street.

意味（1）

(Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.

意味（2）

(figuratively) A copper; a small amount of money.

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.