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batz

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From German Batz, Batze, Batzen (“a coin bearing the image of a bear”).

noun batzes · batzen

  1. historical A batzen (former small copper coin from Germany and Switzerland). In old times, if a Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, he walked to Ulverstone; spent nothing but shoe-leather on the road, drank at the streams, and if he spent a couple of batz when he got to Ulverstone, "it was the end of the world." But now, he would never think of doing such a thin

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@misc{batz_2026,
  title = {batz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/batz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}