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baw•bee
(bô bē′, bô′bē),USA pronunciation n.
- Currencyan old Scottish bullion coin, originally worth about three halfpence of English coin, later sixpence.
- Currencya halfpenny.
- anything of little value.
- named after Alexander Orok, 16th-century mintmaster, laird of Sillebawby 1535–45