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plural bawbees
(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. quotations examples
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