Read more. fin/finn/finny/finnif/finnip/finnup/finnio/finnif = five pounds (5), from the early 1800s. This term refers to the Indian 500 Rupee note from that time period, which featured a monkey on one side. Moola - Also spelled moolah, the origin of this word is unknown. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, Abdabs - terror, fright as in "the screaming abdabs.". "You should watch the mens team play cricket. Haggle - argue, debate the price of something. 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. Learn more. Tea: means gossip, a common phrase used in the US is: "Spill the tea". joey = much debate about this: According to my information (1894 Brewer, and the modern Cassell's, Oxford, Morton, and various other sources) Joey was originally, from 1835 or 1836 a silver fourpenny piece called a groat (Brewer is firm about this), and this meaning subsequently transferred to the silver threepenny piece (Cassell's, Oxford, and Morton). 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. The word cows means a single pound since technically the word is cow's, from cow's licker. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . And this is only the tip of the iceberg! Note the use of "man" in the singular to mean "men" or even "people". Lass - young woman (Scotland and northern England). Once the issue of silver threepences in the United Kingdom had ceased there was a tendency for the coins to be hoarded and comparatively few were ever returned to the Royal Mint. mean in texting? Tom Mix was a famous cowboy film star from 1910-1940. Texas slang. Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony. It is believed these terms were imported from India by returning servicemen. For ex: Wheres my share of the filthy lucre then? Crazy. Yennep is backslang. Minging - foul-smelling, unpleasant, very bad. nicker = a pound (1). Yennep backslang seems first to have appeared along with the general use of backslang in certain communities in the 1800s. Narrowboat - canal boat of long, narrow design, steered with a tiller. nicker a pound (1). Mispronunciation of sovs, short for sovereigns. All rights reserved. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. Shade - to show disapproval or contempt (US origin). Like most languages, English has its fair share of slang terms related to a variety of topics and money is no exception. 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. Off the cuff - without preparation, spontaneous. simon = sixpence (6d). 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. 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. 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. a luv yee pet - I love you (talking to your partner not your dog) Cheers pet - thanks. Boodle normally referred to ill-gotten gains, such as counterfeit notes or the proceeds of a robbery, and also to a roll of banknotes, although in recent times the usage has extended to all sorts of money, usually in fairly large amounts. Dive - a dive usually refers to a dirty and dark pub or club. Nugget: Referencing gold, but a general term for money of any kind. Mispronounced by some as 'sobs'. Possibly connected to the use of nickel in the minting of coins, and to the American slang use of nickel to mean a $5 dollar note, which at the late 1800s was valued not far from a pound. (US, military slang) Tinned meat. Shiv - contemporary slang for knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon (often homemade). Probably related to 'motsa' below. 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. The British word Quid originated from the American Colonies (circa-1700s) when the descendants of the original Scots-Irish colonists returned to the seas as Marines for what was to become the U.S. Navy. sprazi/sprazzy = sixpence (6d). Rhymes: -ki Hyphenation: monkey Noun []. Ape and monkey are considered offensive terms when they're used to describe a person of color. Dope - Awesome. We've shown you the 100 Australian Slang Words & Phrases. Pub - public house, drinking establishment. Lost the plot: If you've heard this, simply put, it means crazy. All later generic versions of the coins were called 'Thalers'. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. An obscure point of nostalgic trivia about the tanner is apparently (thanks J Veitch) a rhyme, from around the mid-1900s, sung to the tune of Rule Britannia: "Rule Brittania, two tanners make a bob, three make eighteen pence and four two bob" My limited research suggests this rhyme was not from London. Trolley dolly - air stewardess (informal). Backslang also contributes several slang money words. British Dictionary definitions for monkey monkey / ( mk) / noun any of numerous long-tailed primates excluding the prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers, etc): comprise the families Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cebidae (New World monkeys), and Callithricidae (marmosets)See Old World monkey, New World monkey Related adjective: simian We also refer to a ten pound note as a tenner. It's not cheap to own a . Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. farthing = a quarter of an old penny (d) - not slang, a proper word in use (in slightly different form - feorthung) since the end of the first millenium, and in this list mainly to clarify that the origin of the word is not from 'four things', supposedly and commonly believed from the times when coins were split to make pieces of smaller value, but actually (less excitingly) from Old English feortha, meaning fourth, corresponding to Old Frisian fiardeng, meaning a quarter of a mark, and similar Germanic words meaning four and fourth. 7. Cockney Rhyming Slang. Example in spoken form: In my new job Ill be earning 75 kay a year. It was inspired by a monkey on the 500 Rupee banknote. Bairn - child (Scottish, northern English). Equivalent to 10p - a tenth of a pound. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). The Covid-19 pandemic has been a recent source of new expressions as is popular music such as grime. (Thanks L Cunliffe). Money Slang Special Whats the meaning of Fiver, Tenner and Bluey in British Slang? nicker = a pound (1). half a crown = two shillings and sixpence (2/6), and more specifically the 2/6 coin. Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. Chunder. 'K' has now mainly replaced 'G' in common speech and especially among middle and professional classes. Shortening of 'grand' (see below). Mug off - disrespect, make someone appear stupid. People commonly use this emoji to express embarrassment in an amusing way or to emphasize that they made a funny mistake. This section is in advanced English and is only intended to be a guide, not to 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. Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. Porkies - lies, from the Cockney rhyming slang "pork pies" = lies. Proper - done well; cf. 1. This mostly means a deliciously spicy Mexican taco, but is also slang for money. Lets get serious about the project. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? 22. ton = commonly one hundred pounds (100). From the 1960s, becoming widely used in the 1970s. The origin is almost certainly London, and the clever and amusing derivation reflects the wit of Londoners: Cockney rhyming slang for five pounds is a 'lady', (from Lady Godiva = fiver); fifteen pounds is three-times five pounds (3x5=15); 'Three Times a Lady' is a song recorded by the group The Commodores; and there you have it: Three Times a Lady = fifteen pounds = a commodore. Interestingly also, pre-decimal coins (e.g., shillings, florins, sixpences) were minted in virtually solid silver up until 1920, when they were reduced to a still impressive 50% silver content. The Bishop was not so fortunate - he was hung drawn and quartered for remaining loyal to the Pope. This has confusing and convoluted origins, from as early as the late 1800s: It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence, based on the following: that 'carpet bag' was cockney rhyming slang for a 'drag', which was generally used to describe a three month sentence; also that in the prison workshops it supposedly took ninety days to produce a certain regulation-size piece of carpet; and there is also a belief that prisoners used to be awarded the luxury of a piece of carpet for their cell after three year's incarceration. If a British friend asks to borrow a fiver from you, he means a five pound note. Your response is private Was this worth your time? Skelp - a slap or smack (Dundee, Scotland). jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. Wor lad - my boyfriend. Fag - cigarette, "ciggie", hence fag end (stub) and fag packet. lolly = money. However, when it comes down to money, it is probably worth getting your head around the lingo, to prevent you handing over, or receiving, a wildly incorrect amount because you got the wrong word. MORE : Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Get your need-to-know These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. A pony equals 25. The most widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include pony which is 25, a ton is 100 and a monkey, which equals 500. Which Teeth Are Normally Considered Anodontia. The slang term 'silver' in relation to monetary value has changed through time, since silver coins used to be far more valuable. Contributors: Gareth Thomas, Beydaan Dihoud, Joji Imamiya. Howff - meeting place, familiar haunt, usually a pub (Scotland) and in Dundee The Howff is a famous cemetery. Quid - pound (informal; British currency). Pie off - to reject, dump (romantic partner). Commonly used in speech as 'some silver' or 'any silver', for example: "Have you got any silver for the car-park?" To illustrate these glorious slang expressions, we teamed up with Art Money to create visuals using ACTUAL money, with each image created using the currency of the country of the term's origin. Monkey: British slang for 500 pounds sterling; originates from soldiers returning from India, where the 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it. From Old High German 'skilling'. See yennep. It's also been used as a replacement term for money. 5. We use this expression a lot. Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Do not sell or share my personal information. Therefore one quid, five quid, fifty quid. Monkey - This originated from the British slang for 500 pounds of sterling. Ned was seemingly not pluralised when referring to a number of guineas, eg., 'It'll cost you ten ned..' A half-ned was half a guinea. Pete Tong - wrong, messed up - referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong. Bullseye (fifty pounds sterling). a monkey foresail. Filters. monkey. It was quite an accepted name for lemonade". He is just being a cheeky monkey. A group of monkeys huddled together. In his stand-up show, British comedian Michael MacIntyre said: "You can actually use any word in the English language and substitute it to mean drunk. (Thanks M Johnson, Jan 2008). Example: "I only paid a monkey for it." 6. tony benn - ten pounds (10), or a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang derived from the Labour MP and government minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn, popularly known as Tony Benn. 2022 - 2023 Times Mojo - All Rights Reserved 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. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). 05. Wonky - is another word for shaky or unstable. Intriguingly I've been informed (thanks P Burns, 8 Dec 2008) that the slang 'coal', seemingly referring to money - although I've seen a suggestion of it being a euphemism for coke (cocaine) - appears in the lyrics of the song Oxford Comma by the band Vampire weekend: "Why would you lie about how much coal you have? madza poona = half-sovereign, from the mid 1800s, for the same reasons as madza caroon. Skive - slang for slack off, avoid work (noun; skiver). wedge = nowadays 'a wedge' a pay-packet amount of money, although the expression is apparently from a very long time ago when coins were actually cut into wedge-shaped pieces to create smaller money units. 6. Doolally - temporarily deranged or feeble-minded. For example: "What did you pay for that?" monkey in British English (mk ) noun 1. any of numerous long-tailed primates excluding the prosimians ( lemurs, tarsiers, etc): comprise the families Cercopithecidae ( Old World monkeys), Cebidae (New World monkeys), and Callithricidae ( marmosets ) See Old World monkey, New World monkey Related adjective: simian 2. any primate except man 3. boodle = money. bung = money in the form of a bribe, from the early English meaning of pocket and purse, and pick-pocket, according to Cassells derived from Frisian (North Netherlands) pung, meaning purse. Every good costermonger has skill in displaying the front of his stall. 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). Scunnered - tired or exhausted (Glaswegian). Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. In this sort of dipping or dibbing, a dipping rhyme would be spoken, coinciding with the pointing or touchung of players in turn, eliminating the child on the final word, for example: dinarly/dinarla/dinaly = a shilling (1/-), from the mid-1800s, also transferred later to the decimal equivalent 5p piece, from the same roots that produced the 'deaner' shilling slang and variations, i.e., Roman denarius and then through other European dinar coins and variations. This is short for the word "beverages," usually alcoholic, most often beer. Though familiar to many Londoners, the term "monkey" is actually Indian slang for a 500 rupee note, which used to have a monkey on it. There is scads of Cockney slang for money. Barmy: crazy, insane; always derogatory. They have more fun than a barrel of monkeys. For ex: My aunt left me five hundred smackers in her will. Certain lingua franca blended with 'parlyaree' or 'polari', which is basically underworld slang. Easy when you know how.. g/G = a thousand pounds. Use In A Sentence: Wow, it is cold today! The selected samples of fruit and vegetables . Rosie - Cockney rhyming slang for tea from "Rosie Lee.". Lit - Amazing or exciting. Butty - a filled or open sandwich (Northern England). Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). Blicky - a handgun (word is US in origin). oner = (pronounced 'wunner'), commonly now meaning one hundred pounds; sometimes one thousand pounds, depending on context. It is suggested by some that the pony slang for 25 derives from the typical price paid for a small horse, but in those times 25 would have been an unusually high price for a pony. #1. 'Bob a nob', in the early 1800s meant 'a shilling a head', when estimating costs of meals, etc. When the pound coin appeared it was immediately christened a 'Maggie', based seemingly on the notion that it was 'a brassy piece that thinks it's a sovereign" (ack J Jamieson, Sep 2007) If you have more detail about where and when this slang arose and is used, please let me know. There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value. Seymour created the classic 1973 Hovis TV advert featuring the baker's boy delivering bread from a bike on an old cobbled hill in a North England town, to the theme of Dvorak's New World symphony played by a brass band. The symbol for a penny was a "d" (for the Latin denarius), and for a shilling, it was "s" (the Latin solidus). Wor lass - my girlfriend. Toad in the Hole - traditional English dish of sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter. Berties - term for Man City fans used by Man Utd supporters; the reverse is "rags". 10. Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies. "My friend was trying to get free copies of her favourite newspaper by queuing up in different locations. The slang word 'tanner' meaning sixpence dates from the early 1800s and is derived most probably from Romany gypsy 'tawno' meaning small one, and Italian 'danaro' meaning small change. As a matter of interest, at the time of writing this (Nov 2004) a mint condition 1937 threepenny bit is being offered for sale by London Bloomsbury coin dealers and auctioneers Spink, with a guide price of 37,000. The most widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include pony which is 25, a ton is 100 and a monkey, which equals 500. The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. Huff - to take offense as in "get the huff"; to inhale the vapors of something to become intoxicated as in to huff glue. It is therefore unlikely that anyone today will use or recall this particular slang, but if the question arises you'll know the answer. Grand - a thousand (colloquial) usually referring to money. They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. Barmy. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers = money. Strop - displeased, angry, as in "having a strop". Origins are not certain. Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". A person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead. -keys, v. 1. any mammal of two major groupings of Primates, the Old World monkeys or catarrhines, and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines, both characterized by flattened faces, binocular vision, and usu. Spondoolicks is possibly from Greek, according to Cassells - from spondulox, a type of shell used for early money. Here the top 80 most used Irish slang phrases. I can find no other references to meanings or origins for the money term 'biscuit'. Chippy (Chippie) - slang for a fish and chip shop. Boyo. The expression is interpreted into Australian and New Zealand money slang as deener, again meaning shilling. quid = one pound (1) or a number of pounds sterling. Piece - piece of bread, sandwich (Glaswegian). More rarely from the early-mid 1900s fiver could also mean five thousand pounds, but arguably it remains today the most widely used slang term for five pounds. Queen mum- Cockney rhyming slang for bum. MORE : How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? A good or bad vibe. Arvo - Afternoon ( S'Arvo - this afternoon!) Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. Locktail - a cocktail invented or enjoyed during Covid-19 lockdown. Bloke What does Bloke mean in British slang. From the 16th century, and a popular expression the north of England, e.g., 'where there's muck there's brass' which incidentally alluded to certain trades involving scrap, mess or waste which offered high earnings. Madza caroon is an example of 'ligua franca' slang which in this context means langauge used or influenced by foreigners or immigrants, like a sort of pidgin or hybrid English-foreign slang, in this case mixed with Italian, which logically implies that much of the early usage was in the English Italian communities. See also 'pair of knickers'. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. Danno (Detective Danny Williams, played by James MacArthur) was McGarrett's unfailingly loyal junior partner. Rows - Medieval galleried, timber walkways above a lower level of shops inChester. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. Your written English leaves a trace of you: your ideas, your expertise, your brand. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. A dosser is the noun. dough = money. E.g." It was a great holiday, we just sat around cabbaging, topping up our tans and drinking cocktails." 2. Zebra Crossing - black and white pedestrian crossing. Not normally pluralised, still expressed as 'squid', not squids, e.g., 'Fifty squid'. 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