Definition of "baubee" []

• Alternative form of bawbee. (noun)

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• "When she belongs to you, by any sort of right, you are blessed if you occasionally know what she is for one hour, without caring a baubee what she may be the next hour."
• "Would ye want yon radical bodies to take chairge o 'ony business in which ye had a baubee?"
• "_Journey_, and which once led him to question whether there was a tree between Edinburgh and the English border older than himself; and to reply to Boswell's suggestion that he ought to be whipped at every tree over 100 years old in that space, "I believe I might submit to it for a baubee!""