A maravedi (q.v.), a small obsolete Spanish copper coin of less value than a farthing.
“What a trifling, foolish girl you are, Edith, to send me by express a letter crammed with nonsense about books and gowns, and to slide the only thing I cared a marvedie about into the postscript.”—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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