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baubee

baubee is the alternative form of bawbee.

Meaning of bawbee

Noun

bawbee (plural bawbees)

  1. (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
  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.2007 July 12, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian

Forms of baubee

pluralbaubees

Questions about baubee

What is baubee the alternative form of?
Baubee is the alternative form of bawbee.

Words near baubee in the dictionary

  1. Batăr
  2. bau
  3. Bauan
  4. Bauang
  5. Baubau
  6. baubee
  7. baubees
  8. baubella
  9. baubellum
  10. bauble
  11. baublery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baubee (page history and authors); bawbee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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