groat /grōt (formerly gröt)/

1. An obsolete English silver coin, worth four old pence and after 1662 coined only as Maundy money (the silver fourpenny-piece, coined 1836–56, was not officially called a groat)
2. A very small sum, proverbially

• scarcities
• scarcity
• scare
• scarecrow
• scarecrows
• scared
• scareder
• scaredest
• scared out of one's wits
• scaredy-cat
• scaredy-cats
• scare-head
• scare-heading
• scare-headings
• scare-heads
• scare-line
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• scaremonger
• scaremongering
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• scare quotes
• scarer
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