Naff - in bad taste, originally gay slang for heterosexual. Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. (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. Up until the late 20th Century, rhyming slang was also common in Australian slang, probably due to the . 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.". Rows - Medieval galleried, timber walkways above a lower level of shops inChester. Initially London slang, especially for a fifty pound note. 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. I'm propa paggered - i'm really tired. Very occasionally older people, students of English or History, etc., refer to loose change of a small amount of coin money as groats. 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). Pommy - a British person (derogatory, especially used by Australians). 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. 5. Loaded - having a great deal of money; rich or alternatively under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 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. shekels/sheckles = money. Slang money words, meanings and origins, ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page, 'dip dip sky blue who's it not you' (the word 'you' meant elimination for the corresponding child), 'ibble-obble black bobble ibble obble out' ('out' meant elimination). 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! We live it, we breathe it, we make our living from it. ton = commonly one hundred pounds (100). It is believed these terms were imported from India by returning servicemen. is commonly used to represent that someone is trying to avoid spilling a secret or saying something inappropriate. The actual setting was in fact Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Shooting and bawling - Arguing with someone. 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. -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. 'K' has now mainly replaced 'G' in common speech and especially among middle and professional classes. 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. monkey. (Thanks M Ty-Wharton). Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Do not sell or share my personal information. Your response is private Was this worth your time? 04. Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. (Thanks R Maguire for prompting more detail for this one.). 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. Equivalent to 12p in decimal money. caser/case = five shillings (5/-), a crown coin. Tea - often used as an alternative for dinner up North, thus "What time is tea, mam, I'm starving". 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. Alternatively beer vouchers, which commonly meant pound notes, prior to their withdrawal. Lost the plot - to become upset, angry, irrational. Backslang also contributes several slang money words. Wor lad - my boyfriend. The tickey slang was in use in 1950s UK (in Birmingham for example, thanks M Bramich), although the slang is more popular in South Africa, from which the British usage seems derived. "He started an exercise routine and his wife copied it. A nicker bit is a one pound coin, and London cockney rhyming slang uses the expression 'nicker bits' to describe a case of diarrhoea. Totty - (uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively (sexist and offensive). It's also been used as a replacement term for money. ASAP: a popular term that stands for as soon as possible and is now used pretty much globally. 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. Jag - alternative word for vaccine jab in Scotland. Closie - Dundee parlance for a stairwell in a block of flats. Plural uses singular form. The brass-nickel threepenny bit was minted up until 1970 and this lovely coin ceased to be legal tender at decimalisation in 1971. The pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. Me ma said - My mam said. Berk - idiot from Cockney rhyming slang Berkeley Hunt = c*nt. Please be careful using any of these terms as many are considered either sexist or offensive or both. Jib - to gain entry without paying usually to a football stadium. Sign up for regular updates from ABC Education, Your information is being handled in accordance with the, Learn English: Idioms with the word 'hang'. Under the cosh - in a difficult situation. Various other spellings, e.g., spondulacks, spondulics. Off the cuff - without preparation, spontaneous. Origin: US/UK. cock and hen = ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). Shiv - contemporary slang for knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon (often homemade). Ned - non-educated delinquent (Scottish backronym). Meaning. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean 500. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. Cock and hen or cockle is also used for 10, whilst 1 might be referred to as a nicker, a nugget or if youre going retro, an Alan Whicker. Clanger: A mistake. As in "We threw everything except the kitchen sink at the problem.". It is also used to express shock, awe, and/or amazement. Corker - something or someone outstanding. Queen mum- Cockney rhyming slang for bum. We use the symbol G when we want to write thousands in shorthand. A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover, victim. From Old High German 'skilling'. EXPLANATION: Although this London-centric slang is completely British, it is actually from India in the nineteenth century. Strop - displeased, angry, as in "having a strop". Any unethical, illegitimate, or objectionable activity that is furtive or deceitful, e.g., undercover sexual advances, cheating, misuse of public funds, etc. garden/garden gate = eight pounds (8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. 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. (US, military slang) Tinned meat. Backslang reverses the phonetic (sound of the) word, not the spelling, which can produce some strange interpretations, and was popular among market traders, butchers and greengrocers. beer tokens = money. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? or What tip shall we leave?" The terms monkey, meaning 500, and pony, meaning 25, are believed by some to have come from old Indian rupee banknotes, which it is asserted used to feature images of those animals, but this is untrue as no Indian banknotes have featured these animals. Precise origin unknown. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. No plural version; it was 'thirty bob' not 'thirty bobs'. British Slang Phrases About Love & Relationships And Having Fun These slang words are all about what you might do with your mates, or your bird or your bloke. Ankle Biter - Child. 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. Pint - unit of beer drunk in pubs (0.568 liters). Possibilities include a connection with the church or bell-ringing since 'bob' meant a set of changes rung on the bells. Brass Monkey Weather. Faff - spend time in ineffectual activity. Here the top 80 most used Irish slang phrases. Bob - one shilling. It was quite an accepted name for lemonade". Lit - Amazing or exciting. 22. Earlier 'long-tailed finnip' meant more specifically ten pounds, since a finnip was five pounds (see fin/finny/finnip) from Yiddish funf meaning five. If youre in London you may overhear many other terms for money and many of these will come from cockney rhyming slang. Many are now obsolete; typically words which relate to pre-decimalisation coins, although some have re-emerged and continue to do so. 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. A slang word used in Britain and chiefly London from around 1750-1850. Banjaxed. In every country there are slang terms for money. monkey = five hundred pounds (500). From the cockney rhyming slang and metaphoric use of 'bread'. Moola: Money in general (origin unknown) Also spelled moolah. Spelt the same P-O-N-Y pony actually means 25 pounds. For ex: My aunt left me five hundred smackers in her will. Meaning: UK/US term for ill-gotten gains. Origins of dib/dibs/dibbs are uncertain but probably relate to the old (early 1800s) children's game of dibs or dibstones played with the knuckle-bones of sheep or pebbles. 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. ", "You know John is not telling the truth about the price of his car. gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). It is therefore unlikely that anyone today will use or recall this particular slang, but if the question arises you'll know the answer. The selected samples of fruit and vegetables . Also perhaps a connection with a plumb-bob, made of lead and used to mark a vertical position in certain trades, notably masons. Meaning: used to describe a person who is mischievous or silly. We use this expression a lot. A clod is a lump of earth. 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. 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. yennaps/yennups = money. 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. 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