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two bob en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK, obsolete, uncountable) Two shillings; a florin.
  2. (Australia, slang, uncountable) A 20-cent coin.
  3. (Australia, UK, attributive, idiomatic, often, uncountable) A trivially small value.
    • Judging from the spectrum and the brightness Dr Stickland “wouldn′t give two bob either way”. 1975 September 4, “Monitor: Nova Honda brightens the night sky”, in New Scientist, page 515:
    • Less flashy in its post-modernism than the MI6 building, more sober in its brick-framed glass curtain walling, Sally Malone would have pointed out that this was the two-bob side of the block, as against the half-crown riverbank site of the other building. 1999, Barry Maitland, The Chalon Heads: A Kathy and Brock Mystery, page 181:

Forms

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Deriveds

silly as a two bob watch · get one's two bob's worth · bent as a two bob note · have one's two bob's worth · give two bob each way