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  • noun Plural form of bawbee.

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Examples

  • He also bought sixpennyworth of the coarsest tobacco, and nearly betrayed his quality to the already suspicious landlord by a princely indifference to his change, but Malcolm prudently secured the 'bawbees' and put them into the Prince's sporran.

    The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • Our folk had tirled the dead dragoons as bare as bawbees before we were loose amaist. —

    Old Mortality 2004

  • I believe in the bawbees afore the tatties leave the back door o 'the cairt.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Jewish children no longer had to pay for school editions of _The Merchant of Venice_ should Scottish infants still have to squander their bawbees on

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Various

  • He maun hae left a fell feck o 'bawbees, for I ashure ye his weeda has

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Regairdin 'this noo kirkyaird bisness, I think it's ridic'lous to spend the toon's bawbees buyin' buryin 'grund for fowk that's no' deid.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "This cost you a twa-three bawbees, I'll be bound," I remarked.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • What was it compared with standing where the full glare of the blazing windows of some public-house fell upon the Rob Roy tartan, with an admiring audience gathered round and bawbees and commendations flying thick?

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

  • Donald looked at them longingly, but our haste brooked no delay, and besides, as he put it to me later, "It's a puir town, but, after a 'said, better than a wheen lousy cattle, for I've come by a fine pair o' progues for a twa-three bawbees."

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • Her auldest laddie's been awa 'oot amon' the Reed Indians, or some o 'thae ither lang-haired, naked fowk' at never wash themsel's; an 'they say he's made a heap o' bawbees.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

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