groat
Plural: groats
Noun
- An old English silver coin worth four pence.
- a former English silver coin worth four pennies
- Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats.
- 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.
Examples
- Finding ’GROAT’ in my rack, I remembered a tiny, forgotten piece of currency.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
groat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgroat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
groat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
groat: valid Words With Friends Word