Pl. bajocchi. In 6 englished as byok, baiock. [It., f. bajo brown.] A small Italian copper coin (now obsolete) worth about a halfpenny.
1547. Boorde, Introd. Knowl., 179. In bras they haue kateryns and byokes, and denares.
1590. Munday, Eng. Rom. Life, in Harl. Misc. (1809), II. 202. Supping so well as I coulde with … one quatrine bestowed in ricoct … a baiock in bread.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 70. 475. Vellum-bound books, at five baiocchi—twopence halfpenny.
1864. Leeds Merc., 11 March. And left the priest without a single bajocco.
