BAWBEE (of very doubtful origin, the most plausible conjecture being that the word is a corruption from the name of the

See also:

• MINT
• MINT (Lat. moneta; Mid. Eng. mynt)

mint

See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master Sillebawby, by whom they were first-issued, c. 1541)  , the Scottish name for a halfpenny or other small coin, and hence used of money generally . A writer in 1573, quoted in Tytler's History of Scotland, speaks of " a coin called a bawbee, . . . which is in value English one penny and a quarter." The word was sometimes written " babie," and has therefore been identified merely with a " baby coin," but this etymology is less probable .