I’m sure there are some terms I missed, and I’m sure more terms will be coined in the years to come.
on Sep 30 2010.
[3], The $100 note is currently green, but between 1984 and 1996 it was grey, and was called a grey nurse (a type of shark). 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. For ex: You mean he paid 300G for a house in the suburbs! However, this usually only extends to terms that are not specific to one country or the other. If your word has any anagrams, they'll be listed too along with a definition for the word if we have one. Submitted by Anonymous The word "guita" in lunfardo is synonim for "money".
It is believed these terms were imported from India by returning servicemen. The “X” shape resembles the Roman Numeral for ten, hence sawbuck. Clams: Money in general; Possible origin is thought to be clamshells that were once used as a form of currency by Native American Indians in California.
Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA Notes: Money in general; reference to banknotes from a bank. For example, both Canadians and Americans refer to a $100 note as a C-note, but an American might refer to it as a Benjamin, after its portrait of Benjamin Franklin, while a Canadian might refer to it as a Borden, after its portrait of Robert Borden. For ex: My neighbour has his own business and he’s got heaps of dosh. Monetary units larger than 1 dollar are often referred to by the names of their coin counterparts: $5 is a "nickel," $10 is a "dime," and $25 is a "quarter.".
Last edited on Jul 24 2007. SINCE 1828. We’re mad about English. ), The expression above would then be ...det kostar 10 spänn... it costs 10 kronor. A twenty-dollar note is known colloquially as QE2, or a Queen Sheet (after its portrait of Queen Elizabeth II). Similarly, "four bits" is fifty cents. U.S. banknote nicknames reflect their values (such as five, twenty, etc. Other more general terms for money, not specifically linked to actual banknotes: Brewer, 1978, p.1053 "Some, as I know, Have parted with their ready rhino" -, Brewer, 1978, p.1029, "If now a person is offered anything on sale, he might say, I have not a, Learn how and when to remove this template message, spondulicks/spondoolic(k)s/spondulix/spondoolies, "Australian twenty-dollar note - Wikipedia", "Paper or plastic money: Australia shows the world how it's done", "Yes, Australians are really petitioning to change their currency's name to the "dollarydoo, "Survey: Kenya ranked third most corrupt country in the world", "Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: Results", "Kenya: Smiths Found Guilty in Kenyan 'Chicken' Scandal Case", "Wordorigins.org Discussion Forums — Dosh", Glossary of money terms at Hemyockcastle.co.uk, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slang_terms_for_money&oldid=985127431, Articles needing additional references from September 2015, All articles needing additional references, Articles lacking reliable references from February 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2017, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2017, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, chapaa, pesa, munde, mundez, mulla, dough, ganji, cheddaz, cheddar/mkwanja, a thao/tenga/ngiri/ngwanye/bramba/ndovu/muti/kapaa/kei(for letter 'K'), The “ONE CENT” coin ($0.01 or 1¢) is commonly called a, The “FIVE CENTS” coin ($0.05 or 5¢) is commonly called a, The “ONE DIME” coin ($0.10 or 10¢) is worth ten cents and is simply referred to as a, The “QUARTER DOLLAR” coin ($0.25 or 25¢) is worth twenty-five cents and is commonly called a, The “HALF DOLLAR” coin ($0.50 or 50¢) is worth fifty cents and is commonly called a, Dimes and quarters used to be sometimes collectively referred to as “silver” due to their historic composition of 90%, $1 bill (ONE DOLLAR) is sometimes called a "single," a "buck," a ", $2 bill is sometimes referred to as a "deuce" or a "Tom".
The word spann comes from the time when Skåne belonged to Denmark (there are a few more words that differs from the south to the north, but we are now discussing slang for money. The sixpence was often referred to as a "zack", which was an Australian and New Zealander term referring to a coin of small denomination, probably derived from Zecchino. Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. ), the subjects depicted on them and their color. When writing in English you put the currency symbol in front of the digits, so £10, €150 or $20.
Check your spam folder if you don't get an email immediately! 25 synonyms of cash from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 55 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Last edited on Jan 02 2011. Last edited on Sep 13 2003. Normally "cents" are called "sen", but in the northern region (Penang, Kedah, Perlis) "sen" are called "kupang" and the "det" (pronounce date) means money. It is thought to derive from the Latin phrase "quid pro quo". 1,000,000,000.)
on Jun 17 2003. You can find out more about that in this, Pavarotti – he was a famous tenor so a Pavarotti is a tenner (£10), If you want to read more about cockney rhyming slang and money, read this. $100.00 is also called an onion in gambling corners.
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If you remove the umlauts in the word it will mean bucket in the county Skåne in Sweden.
In this post we share the official and unofficial ways Brits refer to money. and 50 sen/cents is called 5 kupang and not 50 kupang. [15] Other general terms for money include "bread" (Cockney rhyming slang 'bread & honey', money.
Top cash synonyms (related to slang) are bread, dough and cabbage.