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Definition of Bawbees
1. bawbee [n] - See also: bawbee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawbees
Literary usage of Bawbees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which by George Cruikshank (1848)
"... the bawbees. Accordingly, he took a shop and house at the aforesaid number,
and commenced giving shelter to the wild and the profligate. ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"They have a foolish kind of a rhyme they go through before people with, and so
receive bawbees and ..."
3. The Peasant Poets of Scotland and Musings Under Beeches by Henry Shanks (1881)
"O, guess ye what my wifie did, My sly and sleekit wifie did; Guess ye what my
wifie did VVi' my bawbees? She, wha had vowed through woe and weal To stick to ..."
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