Cheddar. Dodgy - suspicious, of questionable quality (slang). Closie - Dundee parlance for a stairwell in a block of flats. For ex: My neighbour has his own business and hes got heaps of dosh. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. Need your document in perfect English? putting chips into the centre of the table being necessary to continue playing. Mug off - disrespect, make someone appear stupid. Also perhaps a connection with a plumb-bob, made of lead and used to mark a vertical position in certain trades, notably masons. net gen = ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net. You can find us on our website https://theslangpodcast.com and from there you can see our transcript and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many more apps. 9. Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". Scran - food (originally Scottish), especially that of an inferior quality compare grub. Filters. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. When you monkey around, or monkey with something, you fool about or fiddle with it. The series was made and aired originally between 1968 and 1980 and developed a lasting cult following, not least due to the very cool appeal of the McGarrett character. The pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. And this is only the tip of the iceberg! From cockney rhyming slang clodhopper (= copper). Old Bill - (archaic) slang for the police. 'Bruce bailed' = Bruce isn't going to turn up. 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. Old Firm - collective name for the Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers. Bread meaning money is also linked with with the expression 'earning a crust', which alludes to having enough money to pay for one's daily bread. ten bob bit = fifty pence piece (50p). I'm informed however (ack Stuart Taylor, Dec 2006) that Joey was indeed slang for the brass-nickel threepenny bit among children of the Worcester area in the period up to decimalisation in 1971, so as ever, slang is subject to regional variation. 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. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. Hump - sexual intercourse, or as in "get the hump" - get annoyed, in a bad mood. Bread (general term for 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). Backslang essentially entails reversing the sound of the word, not the strict spelling, as you can see from the yennep example. Nick Ratnieks suggests the tanner was named after a Master of the Mint of that name. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary. Stitched up - to trick someone so that they are placed in a difficult or unpleasant situation. Much of it derives from the designs on the notes - five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds. A rare example of money slang from more recent times, even though it draws from the pre-decimal slang, since the term refers to ten shillings (equivalent to 50p) and alludes to the angular shape of the old theepenny bit. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . 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 Bullseye (fifty pounds sterling). 23. Anorak - either hooded rainwear or slang for a nerd. In earlier times a dollar was slang for an English Crown, five shillings (5/-). Howff - meeting place, familiar haunt, usually a pub (Scotland) and in Dundee The Howff is a famous cemetery. 2. the fur of certain long-haired monkeys. Doss - sleep in rough accommodation or in an improvised bed, spend time idly. 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. Bail - To cancel plans. tosheroon/tusheroon/tosh/tush/tusseroon = half-a-crown (2/6) from the mid-1900s, and rarely also slang for a crown (5/-), most likely based in some way on madza caroon ('lingua franca' from mezzo crown), perhaps because of the rhyming, or some lost cockney rhyming rationale. Banjaxed. From the fact that a ton is a measurement of 100 cubic feet of capacity (for storage, loading, etc). Wor lass - my girlfriend. kibosh/kybosh = eighteen pence (i.e., one and six, 1/6, one shilling and sixpence), related to and perhaps derived from the mid-1900s meaning of kibosh for an eighteen month prison sentence. These terms have something for everyone, from the silly to the sincere, and even some insults. . Dunce - an unintelligent person, so called after the much-ridiculed 13th century Scottish theologian John Duns Scotus. As kids growing up we always asked for a glass of spruce. Definition: Drunk beyond comprehension. Wangle - means to get or do something that is a bit devious. dough = money. US and Canadian slang. Slang words or phrases develop over time. hog = confusingly a shilling (1/-) or a sixpence (6d) or a half-crown (2/6), dating back to the 1600s in relation to shilling. MORE : Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Get your need-to-know shrapnel = loose change, especially a heavy and inconvenient pocketful, as when someone repays a small loan in lots of coins. caser/case = five shillings (5/-), a crown coin. Much more recently (thanks G Hudson) logically since the pound coin was introduced in the UK in the 1990s with the pound note's withdrawal, nugget seems to have appeared as a specific term for a pound coin, presumably because the pound coin is golden (actually more brassy than gold) and 'nuggety' in feel. Contributors: Gareth Thomas, Beydaan Dihoud, Joji Imamiya. Boyo. Wacky - funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. 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? 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. 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. From the cockney rhyming slang and metaphoric use of 'bread'. Example in written form: In my new job Ill be earning 75K a year. Scrummy - (upper class) slang for delicious, scrumptious. madza caroon = half-a-crown (2/6) from the mid 1800s. We live in a monkey see, monkey do world.". While the origins of these slang terms are many and various, certainly a lot of English money slang is rooted in various London communities, which for different reasons liked to use language only known in their own circles, notably wholesale markets, street traders, crime and the underworld, the docks, taxi-cab driving, and the immigrant communities. Veg-out - take it easy, relax, do nothing for a while. From cockney rhyming slang, bread and honey = money, and which gave rise to the secondary rhyming slang 'poppy', from poppy red = bread. 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. Texas slang words and phrases. How do you say monkey in British? It is therefore only a matter of time before modern 'silver' copper-based coins have to be made of less valuable metals, upon which provided they remain silver coloured I expect only the scrap metal dealers will notice the difference. Bees knees - a highly admired person or thing. Paddy - temper fit, an Irishman (derogatory). All later generic versions of the coins were called 'Thalers'. Fuzz - old, derogatory slang for the police. 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. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a recent source of new expressions as is popular music such as grime. In the pre-decimal era half a dollar was half a crown, a bob was a shilling, a tanner a sixpence and a joey a threepenny bit. Learn more. Strop - displeased, angry, as in "having a strop". Horner, so the story goes, believing the bribe to be a waste of time, kept for himself the best (the 'plum') of these properties, Mells Manor (near Mells, Frome, Somerset), in which apparently Horner's descendents still lived until quite recently. Similar words for coins and meanings are found all over Europe. Bairn - child (Scottish, northern English). A penny-pincher is someone who is unwilling to spend money. Narrowboat - canal boat of long, narrow design, steered with a tiller. 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. Brewer's 1870 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable states that 'bob' could be derived from 'Bawbee', which was 16-19th century slang for a half-penny, in turn derived from: French 'bas billon', meaning debased copper money (coins were commonly cut to make change). Thats a modern repurposing of the earlier slang that either meant to burgle (To get into somewhere that was tight as a drum) or prison cell (Same root). Expand your U.K. slang vocabulary by learning some key British slang words and what they mean. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. ton = commonly one hundred pounds (100). They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. groat = an old silver four-penny coin from around 1300 and in use in similar form until c.1662, although Brewer states in his late 1800s revised edition of his 1870 dictionary of slang that 'the modern groat was introduced in 1835, and withdrawn in 1887', which is somewhat confusing. 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! 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. Flog a dead horse - waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be changed. The selected samples of fruit and vegetables . For ex: You mean he paid 300G for a house in the suburbs! Nugget: Referencing gold, but a general term for money of any kind. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. Apparently we imported the word grand, which means a thousand, from the States. big ben - ten pounds (10) the sum, and a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang. Brewer's dictionary of 1870 says that the American dollar is '..in English money a little more than four shillings..'. flim/flimsy = five pounds (5), early 1900s, so called because of the thin and flimsy paper on which five pound notes of the time were printed. Chunder. Half is also used as a logical prefix for many slang words which mean a pound, to form a slang expresion for ten shillings and more recently fifty pence (50p), for example and most popularly, 'half a nicker', 'half a quid', etc. An example of erroneous language becoming real actual language through common use. 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. 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. British people like to enjoy themselves. Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. be taken too seriously! handful = five pounds (5), 20th century, derived simply by association to the five digits on a hand. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. marygold/marigold = a million pounds (1,000,000). gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). For ex: Wheres my share of the filthy lucre then? The term ' nicker ' is probably connected to the use of nickel in the minting of coins. For ex: I spent over a hundred quid last weekend without even realising it! (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). Doolally - temporarily deranged or feeble-minded. Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony. Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. monkey meaning: 1. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2 cents coin. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. Let us walk you through some of the most popular Spanish slang words and phrases throughout Latin America and Europe. spondulicks/spondoolicks = money. What does she say can mean what she generally says or thinks about a particular situation and not just at a particular time in the past; whereas What did she say refers to a specific point of time in the past which youre referring to. 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. Then you gotta know the key money values: 20 is a Score, 25 is a Pony, 100 is a Ton, 500 . 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. There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value. Fixin' to. 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. Anyone would think the Brits like a drink. 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. Certain lingua franca blended with 'parlyaree' or 'polari', which is basically underworld slang. plum = One hundred thousand pounds (100,000). nicker = a pound (1). Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry). (Thanks Simon Ladd, Jun 2007), coppers = pre-decimal farthings, ha'pennies and pennies, and to a lesser extent 1p and 2p coins since decimalisation, and also meaning a very small amount of money. For example 'Lend us twenty sovs..' Sov is not generally used in the singular for one pound. 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. sprat/spratt = sixpence (6d). Brummie - native of Birmingham (colloquial). Litty again - exciting or wild once more. We want to make sure youre leaving a professional image of yourself. Queer the pitch- spoil the business in hand already discussed. Possibilities include a connection with the church or bell-ringing since 'bob' meant a set of changes rung on the bells. Faff - spend time in ineffectual activity. The silver threepence was effectively replaced with introduction of the brass-nickel threepenny bit in 1937, through to 1945, which was the last minting of the silver threepence coin. As with deanar the pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. Machair - fertile low-lying grassy plain in the Outer Hebrides. Scouser - native of Liverpool (colloquial). It means to make a profit. Were mad about English. Acting the maggot. foont/funt = a pound (1), from the mid-1900s, derived from the German word 'pfund' for the UK pound. Bender. Take a look at these English expressions involving monkeys. fiver = five pounds (5), from the mid-1800s. Other slang terms: Fiver = 5, Lady Godiva (Cockney rhyming slang for a fiver) = 5, Tenner = 10, Pony = 25, Half a ton = 50, Ton = 100, Monkey = 500, Grand = 1000. Danno (Detective Danny Williams, played by James MacArthur) was McGarrett's unfailingly loyal junior partner. Boracic/brassic - no money, broke, skint from boracic lint = skint. Half a dollar - half a crown. 22. From the 1900s, simply from the word 'score' meaning twenty, derived apparently from the ancient practice of counting sheep in lots of twenty, and keeping tally by cutting ('scoring') notches into a stick. Bill - the "check" in British English after eating in a restaurant. guinea = guinea is not a slang term, it's a proper and historical word for an amount of money equating to twenty-one shillings, or in modern sterling one pound five pence. Toodle pip - archaic, posh form for "goodbye". The modern form of farthing was first recorded in English around 1280 when it altered from ferthing to farthing. Jiffy - a very short time, a moment as in "Back in a jiffy.". Bung is also a verb, meaning to bribe someone by giving cash. From the 1800s, by association with the small fish. nicker = a pound (1). Not generally pluralised. On the front foot - meaning positive, active, attacking (from cricket). The Joey slang word seems reasonably certainly to have been named after the politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855), who advocated successfully that the fourpenny groat be reintroduced, which it was in 1835 or 1836, chiefly to foil London cab drivers (horse driven ones in those days) in their practice of pretending not to have change, with the intention of extorting a bigger tip, particularly when given two shillings for a two-mile fare, which at the time cost one shilling and eight-pence. deep sea diver = fiver (5), heard in use Oxfordshire (thanks Karen/Ewan) late 1990s, this is rhyming slang dating from the 1940s. shekels/sheckles = money. dollar = slang for money, commonly used in singular form, eg., 'Got any dollar?..'. Usually now meaning one pound coins. As referenced by Brewer in 1870. proper job (southwest England and Cornwall). Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. From the Hebrew word and Israeli monetary unit 'shekel' derived in Hebrew from the silver coin 'sekel' in turn from the word for weight 'sakal'. Copyright Learn English Network - All Rights Reserved. Haggle - argue, debate the price of something. 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. Cockney rhyming slang from the late 1800s. Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. Whatever, kibosh meant a shilling and sixpence (1/6). Do Men Still Wear Button Holes At Weddings? Wank - masturbate, a wanker is an objectionable person. Follow our writing guidelines and make your words COUNT! Filters. 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. Scottish Slang for Money. It means to vomit from excessive drinking. 'Monkey's uncle' is used as an expression of surprise. It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. 11. nevis/neves = seven pounds (7), 20th century backslang, and earlier, 1800s (usually as 'nevis gens') seven shillings (7/-). There is scads of Cockney slang for money. Incidentally the Hovis bakery was founded in 1886 and the Hovis name derives from Latin, Hominis Vis, meaning 'strength of man'. Plastered Another British slang term for being drunk. Berk - idiot from Cockney rhyming slang Berkeley Hunt = c*nt. 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