brown = a half-penny or ha'penny. It’s actually a favorite of the legendary rapper E-40 who is widely recognized as one of the foremost originators of slang words in the rap industry. Search for crossword clues found in the NY Times, Daily Celebrity, Daily Mirror, Telegraph and major publications. Earlier 'long-tailed finnip' meant more specifically ten pounds, since a finnip was five pounds (see fin/finny/finnip) from Yiddish funf meaning five. bees (bees and honey) = money. Wealthy (slang) — drunk (slang) Slang for fake animal skin. Amount definition, the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate. Backslang essentially entails reversing the sound of the word, not the strict spelling, as you can see from the yennep example. Usage of bob for shilling dates back to the late 1700s. net gen = ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net. Historically bob was slang for a British shilling (Twelve old pence, pre-decimalisation - and twenty shillings to a pound). A 'flo' is the slang shortening, meaning two shillings. Here’s how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science. This idiom … Also meant to lend a shilling, apparently used by the middle classes, presumably to avoid embarrassment. simon = sixpence (6d). There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value. Some non-slang words are included where their origins are particularly interesting, as are some interesting slang money expressions which originated in other parts of the world, and which are now entering the English language. Originated in the 1800s from the backslang for penny. Much variation in meaning is found in the US. Suggestions of origin include a supposed cockney rhyming slang shortening of bunsen burner (= earner), which is very appealing, but unlikely given the history of the word and spelling, notably that the slang money meaning pre-dated the invention of the bunsen burner, which was devised around 1857. Pre-decimal farthings, ha'pennies and pennies were 97% copper (technically bronze), and would nowadays be worth significantly more than their old face value because copper has become so much more valuable. deaner/dena/denar/dener = a shilling (1/-), from the mid-1800s, derived from association with the many European dinar coins and similar, and derived in turn and associated with the Roman denarius coin which formed the basis of many European currencies and their names. Double click on any word for its definition. Bice could also occur in conjunction with other shilling slang, where the word bice assumes the meaning 'two', as in 'a bice of deaners', pronounced 'bicerdeaners', and with other money slang, for example bice of tenners, pronounced 'bicertenners', meaning twenty pounds. The sixpenny piece used to be known long ago as a 'simon', possibly (ack L Bamford) through reference to the 17th century engraver at the Royal Mint, Thomas Simon. English slang referenced by Brewer in 1870, origin unclear, possibly related to the Virgin Mary, and a style of church windows featuring her image. Not used in the singular for in this sense, for example a five pound note would be called a 'jacks'. Ned was traditionally used as a generic name for a man around these times, as evidenced by its meaning extending to a thuggish man or youth, or a petty criminal (US), and also a reference (mainly in the US) to the devil, (old Ned, raising merry Ned, etc). #sandwich #expensive #money #cuban #spanish. folding/folding stuff/folding money/folding green = banknotes, especially to differentiate or emphasise an amount of money as would be impractical to carry or pay in coins, typically for a night out or to settle a bill. hog = confusingly a shilling (1/-) or a sixpence (6d) or a half-crown (2/6), dating back to the 1600s in relation to shilling. I am also informed (ack Sue Batch, Nov 2007) that spruce also referred to lemonade, which is perhaps another source of the bottle rhyming slang: "... around Northants, particularly the Rushden area, Spruce is in fact lemonade... it has died out nowadays - I was brought up in the 50s and 60s and it was an everyday word around my area back then. There are many different interpretations of boodle meaning money, in the UK and the US. Perhaps based on jack meaning a small thing, although there are many possible different sources. This coincides with the view that Hume re-introduced the groat to counter the cab drivers' scam. dollar = slang for money, commonly used in singular form, eg., 'Got any dollar?..'. a large amount of money, wealth What does the idiom 'raking in the dough' mean? informal a very small amount of money. informal a large amount of money. brass = money. Initially suggested (Mar 2007) by a reader who tells me that the slang term 'biscuit', meaning £100, has been in use for several years, notably in the casino trade (thanks E). Check out 'L.A. fin/finn/finny/finnif/finnip/finnup/finnio/finnif = five pounds (£5), from the early 1800s. Presumably there were different versions and issues of the groat coin, which seems to have been present in the coinage from the 14th to the 19th centuries. a large amount of money synonyms and antonyms in the English synonyms dictionary, see also 'largely',largess',largesse',lag', definition. Bribery money, in slang. (Thanks to R Maguire for raising this one.). From the late 18th century according to most sources, London slang, but the precise origin is not known. Whatever, kibosh meant a shilling and sixpence (1/6). "Two bits" equals 25 cents, or one quarter. It is conceivable that the use also later transferred for a while to a soverign and a pound, being similar currency units, although I'm not aware of specific evidence of this. Variations on the same theme are motser, motzer, motza, all from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) word 'matzah', the unleavened bread originally shaped like a large flat disk, but now more commonly square (for easier packaging and shipping), eaten at Passover, which suggests earliest origins could have been where Jewish communities connected with English speakers, eg., New York or London (thanks G Kahl). In fact arguably the modern term 'silver' equates in value to 'coppers' of a couple of generations ago. I personally feel (and think I recall) there was some transference of the Joey slang to the sixpence (tanner) some time after the silver threepenny coin changed to the brass threepenny bit (which was during the 1930-40s), and this would have been understandable because the silver sixpence was similar to the silver threepence, albeit slightly larger. The misuse of this Spanish word for sandwich is known to have originated from the Cuban population of Miami, Florida after an abrupt rise in sandwich prices. flag = five pound note (£5), UK, notably in Manchester (ack Michael Hicks); also a USA one dollar bill; also used as a slang term for a money note in Australia although Cassells is vague about the value (if you know please contact us). In the same way a ton is also slang for 100 runs in cricket, or a speed of 100 miles per hour. bob = shilling (1/-), although in recent times now means a pound or a dollar in certain regions. This is even true within the United States! Popularity of this slang word was increased by comedian Harry Enfield. grand = a thousand pounds (£1,000 or $1,000) Not pluralised in full form. Bands is similar to the word guap in that it refers to rather a large amount of money, however, people often use it for any amount of money. Other suggestions connecting the word pony with money include the Old German word 'poniren' meaning to pay, and a strange expression from the early 1800s, "There's no touching her, even for a poney [sic]," which apparently referred to a widow, Mrs Robinson, both of which appear in a collection of 'answers to correspondents' sent by readers and published by the Daily Mail in the 1990s. Brewer's dictionary of 1870 says that the American dollar is '..in English money a little more than four shillings..'. Usually meaning a large amount of spending money held by a person when out enjoying themselves. The word dollar is originally derived from German 'Thaler', and earlier from Low German 'dahler', meaning a valley (from which we also got the word 'dale'). The biblical text (from Acts chapter 10 verse 6) is: "He (Peter) lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side..", which was construed by jokers as banking transaction instead of a reference to overnight accommodation. large and a maybe; Definitions include: Short for a thousand and a half when talking about money. Margaret Thatcher acted firmly and ruthlessly in resisting the efforts of the miners and the unions to save the pit jobs and the British coalmining industry, reinforcing her reputation for exercising the full powers of the state, creating resentment among many. Whilst this is not cemented in fact, the widely held belief is that the terms came from soldiers returning to Britain from India. sky/sky diver = five pounds (£5), 20th century cockney rhyming slang. garden/garden gate = eight pounds (£8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. silver = silver coloured coins, typically a handful or piggy-bankful of different ones - i.e., a mixture of 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p. lolly = money. America does make $1000.00 dollar bills, it’s just that no one in real life actually sees them except those who can carry thousands of dollars in their wallet and not blink or get nervous. ". Usually now meaning one pound coins. Also expressed in cockney rhying slang as 'macaroni'. Another suggestion (Ack P Bessell) is that pony might derive from the Latin words 'legem pone', which (according to the etymology source emtymonline.com) means, "........ 'payment of money, cash down,' [which interpretation apparently first appeared in] 1573, from first two words [and also the subtitle] of the fifth division of Psalm cxix [Psalm 119, verses 33 to 48, from the Bible's Old Testament], which begins the psalms at Matins on the 25th of the month; consequently associated with March 25, a quarter day in the old financial calendar, when payments and debts came due...." The words 'Legem pone' do not translate literally into monetary meaning, in the Psalm they words actully seem to equate to 'Teach me..' which is the corresponding phrase in the King James edition of the Bible. strike = a sovereign (early 1700s) and later, a pound, based on the coin minting process which is called 'striking' a coin, so called because of the stamping process used in making coins. Mispronunciation of sovs, short for sovereigns. In fact the term was obsolete before 1971 decimalisation when the old ha'penny (½d) was removed from the currency in 1969. tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie = ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1¼p). How much is 43 quarters 21 halves 52nickels and 3 dimes 47 pennies? dunop/doonup = pound, backslang from the mid-1800s, in which the slang is created from a reversal of the word sound, rather than the spelling, hence the loose correlation to the source word. Bands(also spelled bandz) is slang for money/cash/etc. Stiver also earlier referred to any low value coin. The slang term 'silver' in relation to monetary value has changed through time, since silver coins used to be far more valuable. carpet = three pounds (£3) or three hundred pounds (£300), or sometimes thirty pounds (£30). The Bishop was not so fortunate - he was hung drawn and quartered for remaining loyal to the Pope. McGarrett = fifty pounds (£50). London slang from the 1980s, derived simply from the allusion to a thick wad of banknotes. These, and the rhyming head connection, are not factual origins of how ned became a slang money term; they are merely suggestions of possible usage origin and/or reinforcement. The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600's England, probably derived from the Latin 'quid pro quo' - … deep sea diver = fiver (£5), heard in use Oxfordshire (thanks Karen/Ewan) late 1990s, this is rhyming slang dating from the 1940s. Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. This section is in advanced English and is only intended to be a guide, not to
Similar words for coins and meanings are found all over Europe. Some slang can be quite specific to an area or even an individual who has conjured up their own word for something, but there are a few that are widely used and are worth remembering. Origin unknown, although I received an interesting suggestion (thanks Giles Simmons, March 2007) of a possible connection with Jack Horner's plum in the nursery rhyme. Something of excessive size. Prior to 1971 bob was one of the most commonly used English slang words. clod = a penny (1d). Caser was slang also for a US dollar coin, and the US/Autralian slang logically transferred to English, either or all because of the reference to silver coin, dollar slang for a crown, or the comparable value, as was. maggie/brass maggie = a pound coin (£1) - apparently used in South Yorkshire UK - the story is that the slang was adopted during the extremely acrimonious and prolonged miners' strike of 1984 which coincided with the introduction of the pound coin. The modern 75% copper 25% nickel composition was introduced in 1947. Ayrton – tenner (£10) Rhyming slang on Ayrton Senna; deep sea diver – fiver (£5) folding; pictures of the queen Synonyms. While some etymology sources suggest that 'k' (obviously pronounced 'kay') is from business-speak and underworld language derived from the K abbreviation of kilograms, kilometres, I am inclined to prefer the derivation (suggested to me by Terry Davies) that K instead originates from computer-speak in the early 1970s, from the abbreviation of kilobytes. We have a complete dictionary of London money slang.A Cockney knows all about moneyCos its what make his world go aroundBut he doesn't say money, he says Bees and Honey When talking about pennies and pounds Many are now obsolete; typically words which relate to pre-decimalisation coins, although some have re-emerged and continue to do so. Popularity is supported (and probably confused also) with 'lingua franca' medza/madza and the many variations around these, which probably originated from a different source, namely the Italian mezzo, meaning half (as in madza poona = half sovereign). Decimal 1p and 2p coins were also 97% copper (technically bronze - 97% copper, 2.5% zinc, 0.5% tin ) until replaced by copper-plated steel in 1992, which amusingly made them magnetic. kick = sixpence (6d), from the early 1700s, derived purely from the lose rhyming with six (not cockney rhyming slang), extending to and possible preceded and prompted by the slang expression 'two and a kick' meaning half a crown, i.e., two shillings and sixpence, commonly expressed as 'two and six', which is a more understandable association. F. Favorite. spondulicks/spondoolicks = money. Find another word for huge. Much of it derives from the designs on the notes - five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds. Possibilities include a connection with the church or bell-ringing since 'bob' meant a set of changes rung on the bells. The slang term for a pound or a number of pounds sterling is 'quid' or 'nicker' and there are other slang terms for various amounts of money. Slang money words, meanings and origins, ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page, 'dip dip sky blue who's it not you' (the word 'you' meant elimination for the corresponding child), 'ibble-obble black bobble ibble obble out' ('out' meant elimination). Additionally (ack Martin Symington, Jun 2007) the word 'bob' is still commonly used among the white community of Tanzania in East Africa for the Tanzanian Shilling. This is a slang terminology for money that originates from the Oakland, Bay Area of California. The 'where there's much there's brass' expression helped maintain and spread the populairity iof the 'brass' money slang, rather than cause it. tanner = sixpence (6d). Exemplos: la mesa, una tabla. Like the 'pony' meaning £25, it is suggested by some that the association derives from Indian rupee banknotes featuring the animal. Smackers (1920s) and smackeroos (1940s) are probably US extensions of the earlier English slang smack/smacks (1800s) meaning a pound note/notes, which Cassells slang dictionary suggests might be derived from the notion of smacking notes down onto a table. (Thanks Simon Ladd, June 2007). Each country has a different currency, and therefore different slang words for it. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. In fact 'silver' coins are now made of cupro-nickel 75% copper, 25% nickel (the 20p being 84% and 16% for some reason). Loot: money (originally denoted goods obtained illicitly or as the spoils of war) 31. Shrapnel conventionally means artillery shell fragments, so called from the 2nd World War, after the inventor of the original shrapnel shell, Henry Shrapnel, who devised a shell filled with pellets and explosive powder c.1806. The older nuggets meaning of money obviously alludes to gold nuggets and appeared first in the 1800s. 'K' has now mainly replaced 'G' in common speech and especially among middle and professional classes. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. sprazi/sprazzy = sixpence (6d). Cockney rhyming slang for pony. Common use of the coal/cole slang largely ceased by the 1800s although it continued in the expressions 'tip the cole' and 'post the cole', meaning to make a payment, until these too fell out of popular use by the 1900s. … half a crown = two shillings and sixpence (2/6), and more specifically the 2/6 coin. a large amount of money paid to someone, for example by an insurance company or as a prize in a competition. London has for centuries been extremely cosmopolitan, both as a travel hub and a place for foreign people to live and work and start their own busineses. Popularity of this slang word was increased by comedian Harry Enfield. The first things you gotta learn are that five pounds is a fiver, and ten pounds is a tenner. 500 pounds would have been about the average value of a London house at the time the term originated in the early 20th century according to the CPBS mortgage registers 1919–1922. Money Slang. the smallest amount of food or money that you need to stay alive. I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. © Copyright Learn English Network - All Rights Reserved. 67. lot of money. Within a single language community some of the slang terms vary across social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata, but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language (for example, "buck" for a dollar or similar currency in various nations including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Silver threepences were last issued for circulation in the United Kingdom in 1941 but the final pieces to be sent overseas for colonial use were dated 1944. Long green: paper money (from its shape and color) 30. commodore = fifteen pounds (£15). pocket money noun. See also 'pair of knickers'. Definition: Someone with a lot of money–so much so that they can physically roll around in large piles of it. Search Interest. Bunts also used to refer to unwanted or unaccounted-for goods sold for a crafty gain by workers, and activity typically hidden from the business owner. 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