 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
groat
noun: a former English silver coin worth four pennies [syn: {fourpence}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Groat \Groat\, noun [LG. gr[=o]te, orig., great, that is, a great
piece of coin, larger than other coins in former use. See
{Great}.]
1. An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
2. Any small sum of money.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "groat":
ace, air pollution, atom, attritus, bawbee, bit, bran, cosmic dust,
crown, crumb, crumble, dab, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble,
driblet, dust, dust ball, dwarf, efflorescence, fallout, farina,
farthing, filings, fiver, fleck, florin, flour, flyspeck,
fourpence, fourpenny, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, grits,
groats, guinea, hair, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, handful,
iota, jot, kittens, lint, little, little bit, mag, meal, meg,
minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey, mote,
new pence, np, nutshell, ounce, p, particle, pebble, pence, penny,
pinch, pittance, point, pony, pound, powder, pussies, quid,
raspings, sawdust, scruple, shilling, sixpence, smidgen, smitch,
smut, soot, speck, spoonful, spot, tenner, thimbleful, threepence,
threepenny bit, thrippence, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount,
trivia, tuppence, twopence, whit
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