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/bɔːˈbiː/ · noun
(Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny..
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.
Use bawbee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bawbee means (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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