sobs = pounds. 2022 - 2023 Times Mojo - All Rights Reserved sky/sky diver = five pounds (5), 20th century cockney rhyming slang. 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. Z-Cars - 1960s and 70s TV police drama set in Liverpool. A `ton in British slang is one hundred, usually for 100 pounds (sterling). Probably from Romany gypsy 'wanga' meaning coal. Other variations occur, including the misunderstanding of these to be 'measures', which has become slang for money in its own right. Easy when you know how.. g/G = a thousand pounds. 5. Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. It works." It works." Examples include . Yorkshire Pudding - side dish with roast beef made with eggs, flour, salt, milk and beef dripping cooked in the oven. denoting a small light structure or piece of equipment contrived to suit an immediate purpose. Alternatively beer vouchers, which commonly meant pound notes, prior to their withdrawal. 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. Please be careful using any of these terms as many are considered either sexist or offensive or both. Lolly - a lollipop or ice candy; money (slang). BOODLE. Hog also extended to US 10c and dollar coins, apparently, according to Cassells because coins carried a picture of a pig. Bampot - a foolish, unpleasant, or obnoxious person. joey = much debate about this: According to my . 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). Yank someone's chain - goad, provoke, irritate. All our resources are free and mapped to the Australian Curriculum. Very occasionally older people, students of English or History, etc., refer to loose change of a small amount of coin money as groats. It cannot cost a million dollars. cock and hen = ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). monkey (plural monkeys) . See yennep. Odds and sods - this and that; bits and pieces. Cock and hen also gave raise to the variations cockeren, cockeren and hen, hen, and the natural rhyming slang short version, cock - all meaning ten pounds. Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. Coppers was very popular slang pre-decimalisation (1971), and is still used in referring to modern pennies and two-penny coins, typically describing the copper (coloured) coins in one's pocket or change, or piggy bank. Not always, but often refers to money in coins, and can also refer to riches or wealth. Bread also has associations with money, which in a metaphorical sense can be traced back to the Bible. Example: Are you coming to my birthday bash next Saturday? Exactly when the words became slurs is unknown, but offensive comparisons of black people to apes date back hundreds of centuries. The 'tanner' slang was later reinforced (Ack L Bamford) via jocular reference to a biblical extract about St Peter lodging with Simon, a tanner (of hides). Anorak - either hooded rainwear or slang for a nerd. 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. Let us know in the comments below. Hump - sexual intercourse, or as in "get the hump" - get annoyed, in a bad mood. Numpty - stupid or ineffectual (informal). While this London centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th century India. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). Bung is also a verb, meaning to bribe someone by giving cash. A good or bad vibe. 2. the fur of certain long-haired monkeys. Probably related to 'motsa' below. The 1973 advert's artistic director was Ridley Scott. medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers = money. big ben - ten pounds (10) the sum, and a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang. To make a monkey out of someone means to make someone look silly. It means to make a profit. Narrowboat - canal boat of long, narrow design, steered with a tiller. As well as quid, we have a whole series of words that we use to refer to money, such as: Dosh is uncountable, so you cant have doshes! jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. dosh = slang for a reasonable amount of spending money, for instance enough for a 'night-out'. Use In A Sentence: Wow, it is cold today! 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. Nutmeg - soccer term to dribble or pass the ball through the legs of an opponent. 9. Top 100 Cockney Rhyming Slang Words and Phrases: Adam and Eve - believe Alan Whickers - knickers apples and pears - stairs Artful Dodger - lodger Ascot Races - braces Aunt Joanna - piano Baked Bean - Queen Baker's Dozen - Cousin Ball and Chalk - Walk Barnaby Rudge - Judge Barnet Fair - hair Barney Rubble - trouble Battlecruiser - boozer marygold/marigold = a million pounds (1,000,000). In the old days, you had to pay one penny to use the public toilet and the expression to spend a penny has lived on to this day. Hamsterkaufing - stockpiling or hoarding before a Covid-19 lockdown. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? Doss - sleep in rough accommodation or in an improvised bed, spend time idly. Clanger: A mistake. Proper - done well; cf. french/french loaf = four pounds, most likely from the second half of the 1900s, cockney rhyming slang for rofe (french loaf = rofe), which is backslang for four, also meaning four pounds. We use the symbol G when we want to write thousands in shorthand. Kitchen sink - a very large number of things, whether needed or not. This expression has negative connotations, so filthy lucre would refer to money that has been illegally acquired. For example 'Lend us twenty sovs..' Sov is not generally used in the singular for one pound. Usually now meaning one pound coins. Bags (to make a bags of something) Bang on. Twat - vulgar slang for "vagina." There are many different interpretations of boodle meaning money, in the UK and the US. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. tray/trey = three pounds, and earlier threpence (thruppeny bit, 3d), ultimately from the Latin tres meaning three, and especially from the use of tray and trey for the number three in cards and dice games. bollocksed. Porkies . 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. Bairn - child (Scottish, northern English). Monkey - This originated from the British slang for 500 pounds of sterling. He was referring to the fact that the groat's production ceased from 1662 and then restarted in 1835, (or 1836 according to other sources). Variations on the same theme are moolah, mola, mulla. In fact 'silver' coins are now made of cupro-nickel 75% copper, 25% nickel (the 20p being 84% and 16% for some reason). Polari- secret language used by gay men to avoid detection before homosexuality was decriminalized in 1967. Bagsy - it's mine; succeed in securing (something) for oneself. Also perhaps a connection with a plumb-bob, made of lead and used to mark a vertical position in certain trades, notably masons. Pub - public house, drinking establishment. Gobsmacked - slang for totally surprised, shocked. Rosie - Cockney rhyming slang for tea from "Rosie Lee.". EXPLANATION: Although this London-centric slang is completely British, it is actually from India in the nineteenth century. In every country there are slang terms for money. McGarret refers cunningly and amusingly to the popular US TV crime series Hawaii Five-0 and its fictional head detective Steve McGarrett, played by Jack Lord. There is scads of Cockney slang for money. Certain lingua franca blended with 'parlyaree' or 'polari', which is basically underworld slang. Her Majesty's Pleasure - in jail; see porridge, inside. The similar German and Austrian coin was the 'Groschen', equivalent to 10 'Pfennigs'. 4. 6. 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. 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. job = guinea, late 1600s, probably ultimately derived from from the earlier meaning of the word job, a lump or piece (from 14th century English gobbe), which developed into the work-related meaning of job, and thereby came to have general meaning of payment for work, including specific meaning of a guinea. Boracic/brassic - no money, broke, skint from boracic lint = skint. Pletty (plettie) - Dundonian slang for an open-air communal landing in a block of tenement flats. They have more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. Minging - foul-smelling, unpleasant, very bad. Bender. Our last slang term for money and again animal related we have a monkey M-O-N-K-E-Y, no not the animal but actually meaning 500 pounds. Hello MaryParker, Thank you for your comments. spondulicks/spondoolicks = money. In this post we share the official and unofficial ways Brits refer to money. No other language in the world has been as bastardised as this one! 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. 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. Wank - masturbate, a wanker is an objectionable person. Clod was also used for other old copper coins. We use K (from kilo) when we write with digits but we also say it when speaking, so that phonetically it would sound like kay. Adam and Eve it - Cockney rhyming slang = believe it. Boozer - pub, or a person who drinks a lot. Quid - pound (informal; British currency). Before decimalisation, British money was made up of pounds, shillings, and pence as follows: 1 pound = 20 shillings. When you monkey around, or monkey with something, you fool about or fiddle with it. If you think we've missed anything let us know by commenting below. chip = a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. coal = a penny (1d). For example, you might say a chair has a wonky leg. am gan to the toon - i'm going to Newcastle city centre. Old Indian rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee featured a pony. Jack is much used in a wide variety of slang expressions. 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. 4. It's not cheap to own a . Not pluralised for a number of pounds, eg., 'It cost me twenty nicker..' From the early 1900s, London slang, precise origin unknown. Moola - Also spelled moolah, the origin of this word is unknown. 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. Answer (1 of 27): There is commonly held belief that the term was brought back by returning British soldiers in the days of the Raj, alluding to the idea that the 25 rupee note bore a picture of a pony (the same theory attempts to explain 500 being a 'monkey').The problem with this idea is this:. See also 'pair of knickers'. 20 is sometimes referred to as a score, although strictly this is not a slang term for money, as score is a normal word for twenty. Baccy: shortened word for "tobacco;" also, "wacky backy" means marijuana. From cockney rhyming slang, bread and honey = money, and which gave rise to the secondary rhyming slang 'poppy', from poppy red = bread. A Dictionary of American Idioms monkey business [monkey business] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Hear, understand the origins and meanings of new slang and use it immediately! Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. 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. 'Bob a nob', in the early 1800s meant 'a shilling a head', when estimating costs of meals, etc. 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. Bugger off . wad = money. generalise/generalize = a shilling (1/-), from the mid 1800s, thought to be backslang. One pound is subdivided into 100 pence, the singular of which is one penny. 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. Certain trades, notably masons apparently, according to Cassells because coins a... 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