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单词 groat
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groatn.

Brit. /ɡrəʊt/, /ɡrɔːt/, U.S. /ɡroʊt/
Forms: Middle English–1500s groot(e, grote, Middle English–1500s grott(e, 1500s grot, groate, grootte, Scottish and northern groit, groyt, 1500s– groat.
Etymology: < Middle Dutch groot, properly an elliptical use of the adjective etymologically = great (in the sense ‘thick’); compare Middle High German grôȥe pfenninge ‘thick pennies’, groschen n. The equivalent medieval Latin grossus , Old French gros (see gross n.2) occur earlier than the Germanic forms. The pronunciation /ɡrɔːt/, for which compare /brɔːd/ broad, is recognized by many dictionaries, but is now old-fashioned.
1. Historical. A denomination of coin (in medieval Latin grossus, French gros, Italian grosso, Middle Dutch groot) which was recognized from the 13th cent. in various countries of Europe. Its standard seems to have been in the 14th cent. theoretically one-eighth of an ounce of silver; but its actual intrinsic value varied greatly in different countries and at different periods. (The adoption of the Dutch or Flemish form of the word into English shows that the ‘groat’ of the Low Countries had circulated here before a coin of that denomination was issued by the English sovereigns.) †a shilling, pound of groats: a Flemish money of account bearing the same proportion to the ordinary ‘shilling’ or ‘pound’ as the groat or ‘thick penny’ did to the ordinary penny.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other European
groata1387
markc1475
Philip?1482
caroline1555
sol1583
gross1638
obolus1761
tenpenny1822
ECU1970
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 259 Þe groot turoney is somwhat lasse worþy þan an Englische groote.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 42 Qvyntyne the tollar Hath taken of me A pound of grotes [Fr. vng liure de gros] More than he ought to take Of right tolle.
c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 3472 Beuys gaue that man for his tydynge Of grotes twenty shelynge.
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. M.viiiv A flemmysshe grote is lytle aboue 3 farthynges Englysshe.
2.
a. The English groat coined in 1351–2 was made equal to four pence. This ratio between the groat and the penny continued to be maintained; but owing to the progressive debasement of both coins, the ‘old groats’ which remained in circulation were valued at a higher rate (see quots. 1465, c1483, also 1552 in b). The groat ceased to be issued for circulation in 1662, and was not afterwards coined under that name. The ‘fourpence’ (popularly ‘fourpenny bit,’ ‘fourpenny piece’), which was issued from 1836 to 1856 (and after 1888 reissued for colonial circulation) was occasionally called a ‘groat,’ but the name was neither officially recognized nor commonly used. The Scottish fourpenny piece, first struck in 1358, is called a ‘groat’ (Anglo-Norman grote) in an English Act of 1390, and this name was used in Scotland itself in the 15th cent. Its value was already only 3d. English in 1373, and 2d. in 1390; later it fell much lower. In Ireland the groat was first struck in 1460. Harry groat (see Harry n.2 Compounds 2). York groat (see quot. 1837).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of 4d > groat
groat1362
great1473
chekasyde1543
flag1567
gunhole groata1577
Harry groat1641
1351 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1708) V. 709/1 Si avoms, par avis de nostre Conseil..ordene & fait faire Novele Monoie..d'Argent cest assavoir une Monoie, que serra appellee Un Gros, de la value de Quaters Esterlings.]
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 133 Heo ȝeueth the jayler gold and grotes to-gedere.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 617 Ye, for a grote, vnbokele anon thy purs.
1444 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 220 A good be stille is offte weel wourth a groote.
1451 Sc. Acts Jas. II c. 1 At þar be strikin of the vnce of brynt siluer or bulȝeoun of þat fynes viij grottes.
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 492 My master payd hym..of old grotes, l.s.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxix. 239 In the xxvi yere of his regne the kyng lete ordeyne and make his newe money..the peny, the grote of value of iiij pens, and the half grote of value of ii pens..but it was of lasse weight than the old sterlyng was by v shyllyng in the pounde.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 16 The olde grotes of englond Whiche be worth v. pens The newe be worth foure pens.
1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 5 Coin of other Lands now current in this Realm for Groats, or for iv.d. being Silver.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cviii In this yere [sc. 24 Edw. III, 1351–2] also the kynge caused to be Coyned Grotes, and halfe grotes, the whiche lacked of ye weyghte of his former Coyne.
1543 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 50 I gyff to the sayd George..ij hole angells of gold, and xxti of hold groyts cawlyd chekasydes, and my leyse of my fermold.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) iii. 133 In Irlond they haue Irysh grotes, and harped grotes.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. vi. 153 There commeth up white huskes, which be flat, rounde, and very large, of the quantitie of a groote, or Testerne.
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 15 This yeare [sc. 1526] in November, the Kinge enhaunsed his coyne..that is to saye, the riall at 11s 3d, the angell 7s 6d..allso he..valued an ownce sylver fyne sterlinge at 3s 8d; and also made new grotes and halfe grotts after the rate.
1627 R. Bernard Isle of Man (ed. 4) ii. 239 Two pence, yea a groate sometimes.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 230 I dare lay a Groat [rhyme-word Lot].
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶4 A Pin a Day, says our frugal Proverb, is a Groat a Year.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 106 With apron blue to dry her tears she sought, Then saw the cow well serv'd, and took a groat.
1786 R. Burns Poems 32 An' plunder'd o' her hindmost groat, By gallows knaves.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 330 It was one of the charges against Wolsey, that he had put the cardinal's hat upon the king's money, as is seen upon his York groats and half-groats.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. iv. 75 For the young lord at their head gave me a York groat.
1885 W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme v. 144 A shearer would look askance at a groat dropped into the palm of his hand, as payment for a day's work.
b. Used to translate Greek δραχμή or Latin denarius.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Greek
obolOE
drachmc1384
mnamc1400
dramc1440
mina1495
groat1526
didrachm1548
drachma1579
obolus1579
tetradrachm1579
obole1598
philippic1651
stater1685
tetrobol1693
tridrachm1771
pentadrachm1827
triobol1837
octadrachm1848
decadrachm1856
lepton1877
dodecadrachm1881
diobol1887
trihemiobol1887
distater1895
hemiobol1921
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Roman > silver denarius
denaryc1449
groat1526
denarius1579
denier1598
denar1701
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xv. f. cij I have founde the groate which I had loost.
1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Didrachmum, a siluer coyne, conteynyng .ii. Drachmas, euerie Drachma, beyng in value an old sterling groat, when eight went to the ounce.]
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xx. 2 He agreed with ye workmen for a groot a dai.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 364/2 Seeke the groat that is lost, of the vnitie, I meane, of fayth.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oivv/2 A Grote, drachma.
c. Taken as the type of a very small sum. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > coin as type of
pennya1225
sumc1300
mitea1375
minutec1384
groat1513
souse1570
widow's mite1572
stivera1640
brass farthing1642
shilling1737
rap1778
skilligalee1834
skillick1835
steever1892
razoo1919
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. v. 71 Than, at the last, to pas our in this boit Thay bene admit, and costis thaim not a groit.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) xxi. 2 Except ȝour gouns, some hes not worth a grote.
a1704 T. Brown Satyr upon French King in Wks. (1707) I. i. 90 S'life, I'le not take thy Honour for a Groat.
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 17 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1419 I do not care a groat what it is.
d. a cracked or slit groat: referred to as the type of something worthless. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
hawc1000
turdc1275
fille1297
dusta1300
lead1303
skitc1330
naught1340
vanityc1340
wrakea1350
rushc1350
dirt1357
fly's wing1377
goose-wing1377
fartc1390
chaff?a1400
nutshella1400
shalec1400
yardc1400
wrack1472
pelfrya1529
trasha1529
dreg1531
trish-trash1542
alchemy1547
beggary?1548
rubbish1548
pelfa1555
chip1556
stark naught1562
paltry?1566
rubbish1566
riff-raff1570
bran1574
baggage1579
nihil1579
trush-trash1582
stubblea1591
tartar1590
garbage1592
bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
tilta1603
nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
buttermilk1630
dross1632
paltrement1641
cattle1643
bagatelle1647
nothingness1652
brimborion1653
stuff1670
flap-dragon1700
mud1706
caput mortuuma1711
snuff1778
twaddle1786
powder-post1790
traffic1828
junk1836
duffer1852
shice1859
punk1869
hogwash1870
cagmag1875
shit1890
tosh1892
tripe1895
dreck1905
schlock1906
cannon fodder1917
shite1928
skunk1929
crut1937
chickenshit1938
crud1943
Mickey Mouse1958
gick1959
garbo1978
turd1978
pants1994
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4v Peace you crackt groates.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. ix. 145 Their Vulgar Catechismes leave wholly out the Second Commandement..These wicked Cheats, of the Tenth make Two. But 'tis a Slit Groat.
1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. 156 The People..take all upon trust for their Souls, that would not trust an Arch-bishop about a Slit Groat.
3. A point at cards, ? from the practice of using groats to score with. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > score or points
groat1680
tout1680
trente1706
game point1773
low1818
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 83 If either side are at eight Groats he hath the benefit of calling Can-ye, if he hath two Honours in his hand.

Compounds

groat-silver n. Obsolete a customary gratuity of a groat.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip > of specific amount
groat-silver1394
1394–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 214 Hominibus de domo Dei pro eorum grotsilver, 6s. 8d.
1522–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 255 15 fratr. et soror. de domo Dei pro eorum grotsilver, cuilibet eorum 5d., 6s. 3d.
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