cows = a pound, 1930s, from the rhyming slang 'cow's licker' = nicker (nicker means a pound). Chucking it down: If you didn't know, UK weather includes (lots of) rain with a side of rain and this expression is used often. readies = money, usually banknotes. wad = money. The use of the word 'half' alone to mean 50p seemingly never gaught on, unless anyone can confirm otherwise. Wed like to share our expertise with you. An 'oxford' was cockney rhyming slang for five shillings (5/-) based on the dollar rhyming slang: 'oxford scholar'. It means to make a profit. Jack is much used in a wide variety of slang expressions. 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.". Tom Mix was a famous cowboy film star from 1910-1940. These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary. Space cadet - flaky, lightheaded, or forgetful person. A dosser is the noun. There is possibly an association with plumb-bob, being another symbolic piece of metal, made of lead and used to mark a vertical position in certain trades, notably masons. Some of these new international slang words are used in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK (and even in non-English speaking countries). "No more monkeying around! Mispronunciation of sovs, short for sovereigns. It never really caught on and has died out now". The British population most definitely has an island mentality and this was never more apparent than when the euro was introduced on January 1st 1999. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. Were mad about English. This is what I call brass monkey weather. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac' (meaning what?.. spondulicks/spondoolicks = money. There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value. Naff - in bad taste, originally gay slang for heterosexual. Veg-out - take it easy, relax, do nothing for a while. He is just being a cheeky monkey. A group of monkeys huddled together. These pages are best viewed using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, or IE. The spelling cole was also used. For ex: You mean he paid 300G for a house in the suburbs! Dogging - slang for engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place or watching others doing so. ton = commonly one hundred pounds (100). Cockney Rhyming Slang. Anyone would think the Brits like a drink. If you think we've missed anything let us know by commenting below. The solidus and denarius . Arvo - Afternoon ( S'Arvo - this afternoon!) 1. be taken too seriously! Scouser - native of Liverpool (colloquial). The study also found more than half of Brits regularly use slang words for money but seven in 10 admit to getting confused about some of the meanings. No other language in the world has been as bastardised as this one! Quid - pound (informal; British currency). 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. Originated in the USA in the 1920s, logically an association with the literal meaning - full or large. Not pluralised for a number of pounds, eg., 'It cost me twenty nicker..' From the early 1900s, London slang, precise origin unknown. Pissed - drunk (slang) in British English; "angry" in American English. Easy when you know how.. g/G = a thousand pounds. Jessie - originally Scottish slang for weak or effeminate man. For ex: Susan just had a new extension built onto her house, its beautiful but it must have cost her an arm and a leg! Porkies - lies, from the Cockney rhyming slang "pork pies" = lies. Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony. Berties - term for Man City fans used by Man Utd supporters; the reverse is "rags". gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). Dosh appears to have originated in this form in the US in the 19th century, and then re-emerged in more popular use in the UK in the mid-20th century. lolly = money. 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). To the Cockney, the phrase "steps and stairs" describes the idea of gradation. A combination of medza, a corruption of Italian mezzo meaning half, and a mispronunciation or interpretation of crown. yennaps/yennups = money. Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. Doolally - temporarily deranged or feeble-minded. Skelp - a slap or smack (Dundee, Scotland). Ahhh, English. It was a monkey see, monkey do sort of situation. Not normally pluralised, still expressed as 'squid', not squids, e.g., 'Fifty squid'. Mispronounced by some as 'sobs'. 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. From the early 1900s, and like many of these slang words popular among Londoners (ack K Collard) from whom such terms spread notably via City traders and also the armed forces during the 2nd World War. For ex: My neighbour has his own business and hes got heaps of dosh. It means to vomit from excessive drinking. The symbol for a penny was a "d" (for the Latin denarius), and for a shilling, it was "s" (the Latin solidus). Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. dibs/dibbs = money. London slang from the 1980s, derived simply from the allusion to a thick wad of banknotes. When pocket watches first became fashionable, they were held against the body by use of a small chain. British Accents: Tips on Understanding Brits! US and Canadian slang. Usually retains singular form (G rather than G's) for more than one thousand pounds, for example "Twenty G". 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. MORE : Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Get your need-to-know nicker a pound (1). You cheeky monkey." Chin-wag: A chat or brief conversation. For example: "What did you pay for that?" Plural uses singular form, eg., 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it..', or 'I won five hundred quid on the horses yesterday..'. We opted not to join the Europe-wide currency and have stubbornly kept our pounds and pence. 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. In earlier times a dollar was slang for an English Crown, five shillings (5/-). In the 18th century 'bobstick' was a shillings-worth of gin. or What tip shall we leave?" Originated in the 1800s from the backslang for penny. Dosh (general term for money). (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) A piece of faeces. Do Men Still Wear Button Holes At Weddings? The Jack Horner nursery rhyme is seemingly based on the story of Jack Horner, a steward to the Bishop of Glastonbury at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries (16th century), who was sent to Henry VIII with a bribe consisting of the deeds to twelve important properties in the area. Tea - often used as an alternative for dinner up North, thus "What time is tea, mam, I'm starving". monkey (plural monkeys) . If a British friend asks to borrow a fiver from you, he means a five pound note. Monkey (London via India) London slang for 500. bollocksed. Below is the UK transcription for 'monkey': Modern IPA: mkj. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training. Danno (Detective Danny Williams, played by James MacArthur) was McGarrett's unfailingly loyal junior partner. Covidiot - someone who ignores health advice about COVID-19 similar to Morona. Crusty - usually young homeless or vagrant person stereotypically dreadlocked; can also mean angry or irritated. I'm propa paggered - i'm really tired. Bread (general term for money). Incidentally the Hovis bakery was founded in 1886 and the Hovis name derives from Latin, Hominis Vis, meaning 'strength of man'. The term monkey came from soldiers returning from India, where the 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it. Cheeky monkey is an expression we use when someone is being mischievous and playful. Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Do not sell or share my personal information. Banjaxed. 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. 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. 'Monkey's uncle' is used as an expression of surprise. Texas slang. Definition: Drunk beyond comprehension. A variation of sprat, see below. Seems to have surfaced first as caser in Australia in the mid-1800s from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) kesef meaning silver, where (in Australia) it also meant a five year prison term. The term was coined by British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note of that era had a picture of a monkey on it. A "par" breaches social and common courtesy, eg, a disrespectful comment could be seen as a "par." "Par" can also be used as a verb, eg, "You just got parred." This slang term could be a British abbreviation of the French "faux pas," meaning an embarrassing or tactless remark in a social situation. It works." It works." Examples include . Therefore one quid, five quid, fifty quid. Jib - to gain entry without paying usually to a football stadium. bar = a pound, from the late 1800s, and earlier a sovereign, probably from Romany gypsy 'bauro' meaning heavy or big, and also influenced by allusion to the iron bars use as trading currency used with Africans, plus a possible reference to the custom of casting of precious metal in bars. Black stuff. More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. Other intriguing possible origins/influences include a suggested connection with the highly secretive Quidhampton banknote paper-mill, and the term quid as applied (ack D Murray) to chewing tobacco, which are explained in more detail under quid in the cliches, words and slang page. You do write capitals when you use the internationally recognised abbreviations, therefore GBP for pounds, EUR for euros, USD for dollars and CNY for Chinese yuan etc. E.g." It was a great holiday, we just sat around cabbaging, topping up our tans and drinking cocktails." 2. Loaded - having a great deal of money; rich or alternatively under the influence of alcohol or drugs. "You should watch the mens team play cricket. Shiv - contemporary slang for knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon (often homemade). Thats the end of our money series so remember to tune in for our next episode to see what new slang we have in store for you! Various other spellings, e.g., spondulacks, spondulics. 11. For ex: My aunt left me five hundred smackers in her will. Monkey Emoji is a very simple emoji usually used for its literal meaning when talking about wild and funny animals such as monkeys. deuce = two pounds, and much earlier (from the 1600s) tuppence (two old pence, 2d), from the French deus and Latin duos meaning two (which also give us the deuce term in tennis, meaning two points needed to win). Goblin mode - describes "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour. For the record, the other detectives were called Chin Ho Kelly (the old guy) and Kono Kalakaua (the big guy), played by Kam Fong and Zulu, both of which seem far better character names, but that's really the way it was. Lost the plot: If you've heard this, simply put, it means crazy. It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. Like so much slang, kibosh trips off the tongue easily and amusingly, which would encourage the extension of its use from prison term to money. This expression has negative connotations, so filthy lucre would refer to money that has been illegally acquired. three ha'pence/three haypence = 1d (one and a half old pennies) - this lovely expression (thanks Dean) did not survive decimalisation, despite there being new decimal half-pence coins. proper job (southwest England and Cornwall). Whinge - to complain, thus a whinger is a person who complains, whines. This means that something is incredibly expensive. Meaning. Easy-peasy - very straightforward and easy. Also used regularly is a 'score ' which is. These Marines (fighting Sailors) were known as Squids (I, myself, was a Squid in the latter 1900s). Bad dose. Seemingly no longer used. You can use it to refer to a person or an object. Almost certainly and logically derived from the slang 'doss-house', meaning a very cheap hostel or room, from Elizabethan England when 'doss' was a straw bed, from 'dossel' meaning bundle of straw, in turn from the French 'dossier' meaning bundle. joey = much debate about this: According to my . ned = a guinea. 8. A nicker bit is a one pound coin, and London cockney rhyming slang uses the expression 'nicker bits' to describe a case of diarrhoea. Boracic/brassic - no money, broke, skint from boracic lint = skint. . Doss - sleep in rough accommodation or in an improvised bed, spend time idly. 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. "Gob" is a British expression for "mouth". Boozer - pub, or a person who drinks a lot. Cock up: Make a mess of something. To sit around doing little, to be idle. Spanish is spoken natively in over 20 countries and even has more first language speakers than English, making it an incredibly diverse language with many different slang words and phrases. gelt/gelter = money, from the late 1600s, with roots in foreign words for gold, notably German and Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) gelt, and Dutch and South African geld. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). Probably London slang from the early 1800s. For ex: I hate going out with John, hes such a penny-pincher that he never offers to buy everyone a round of drinks at the pub. Shank - to stab someone with a knife or bladed instrument (slang). bread (bread and honey) = money. Gobsmacked. generalise/generalize = a shilling (1/-), from the mid 1800s, thought to be backslang. Paddy - temper fit, an Irishman (derogatory). commodore = fifteen pounds (15). Bob - one shilling. live, learn and work. A `pony is 25 pounds, a `monkey 500. What does pony mean in British slang? People commonly use this emoji to express embarrassment in an amusing way or to emphasize that they made a funny mistake. Now that we've covered the official British money terms and even some outdated ones it's time to see how people in the UK talk about money on a day-to-day basis. Precise origin of the word ned is uncertain although it is connected indirectly (by Chambers and Cassells for example) with a straightforward rhyming slang for the word head (conventional ockney rhyming slang is slightly more complex than this), which seems plausible given that the monarch's head appeared on guinea coins. Steve McGarrett was given the legendary line (every week virtually) "Book 'em Danno," - or "Book him Danno," - depending on the number of baddies they caught. The older nuggets meaning of money obviously alludes to gold nuggets and appeared first in the 1800s. Scrummy - (upper class) slang for delicious, scrumptious. Precise origin unknown. The old slang term for a shilling was ' bob ' and for a guinea - ' yellow-boy '. ? Wonky - is another word for shaky or unstable. wankered. ", "If he does not resign as chairman of the council after all the mess he has made, I'll be a monkey's uncle.". As India was under the rule of the British Empire, the term made it over to London, despite the fact there were no monkeys on British currency. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . What it actually means: As its name suggests, this monkey is covering its eyes to see no evil, as as in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil proverb. Blag - a robbery (noun), to rob or scrounge (verb). sobs = pounds. bice/byce = two shillings (2/-) or two pounds or twenty pounds - probably from the French bis, meaning twice, which suggests usage is older than the 1900s first recorded and referenced by dictionary sources. Less well used slang terms include Lady Godiva for fiver and Ayrton Senna for tenner. 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. cock and hen = ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). A good or bad vibe. For the uninitiated, Cockney rhyming slang can be a pretty confusing language which is probably best avoided if you dont know the ins and outs of it. 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? 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. Backslang also contributes several slang money words. 11. Roadman - someone well-acquainted with their local area. Filters. Equivalent to 12p in decimal money. Let us walk you through some of the most popular Spanish slang words and phrases throughout Latin America and Europe. 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