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. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Our folk had tirled the dead dragoons as bare as bawbees before we were loose amaist. — ❋ Unknown (2004)
I believe in the bawbees afore the tatties leave the back door o 'the cairt. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
He maun hae left a fell feck o 'bawbees, for I ashure ye his weeda has ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
I'm shure I needna trauchle to haud in aboot the bawbees! ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
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. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
"This cost you a twa-three bawbees, I'll be bound," I remarked. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
The cabby got his bawbees frae Meg, an 'drave awa', gien Sandy a glower like a puttin 'bull; but Sandy juist gae a bit lauch, an' cried, ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
He put on the shop shutters, an 'syne screwed aff the gas at the meeter afore I got the bawbees oot o' the till, an 'stack in, ye never saw the like. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
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? ❋ Various (N/A)
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 ❋ Various (N/A)
Highness's present situation he would find "bawbees very useful to him." ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)
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." ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
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. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
Jinger Beer in wee bottells at Tippence, an 'Sma' Beer for three bawbees the twa bottels out of the house, an 'a penny the bottel in. ❋ Various (N/A)
"It'll cost ye some bawbees to gang to London," put in Jake Tosh. ❋ Alexander Sutherland Neill (1928)
Our landlady, a kind, motherly, canny Scotchwoman, looked after us well and favoured us with many a bit of good advice: “You must be guid laddies, and tak care o 'the bawbees; you maun na eat butchers' meat twice the week; tak plenty o 'parritch and dinna be extravagant.” ❋ Tatlow, Joseph (1920)
He'll be wanting to know why and hoo comes it he should be spending his bawbees. ❋ Harry Lauder (1910)
Maybe it's meanness for folk like that to be canny, to be saving, to be putting the bawbees they micht be spending on pleasure in the kist on the mantel where the pennies drop in one by one, sae slow but sure. ❋ Harry Lauder (1910)
And most probably he is voted a fool for not doing as many men in similar positions are doingviz., making up for a lack of principle by an abundance of bawbees easily extracted from a large class of contractors who are only too willing ... ❋ Unknown (1908)
