groat

Meaning

Noun

  • Hulled grain.
  • Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
  • A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
  • A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.

Origin

  • From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutÄ…. More at grit, grout.
  • Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois ("a coin of Tours"), from Medieval Latin denarius ("coin") grossus. Related to German Groschen

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