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. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . - cheers, good health (Welsh). 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. We also refer to a ten pound note as a tenner. McGarrett = fifty pounds (50). If you want to read more about cockney rhyming slang and money, read this BBC article. Here are the most common and/or interesting British slang money words and expressions, with meanings, and origins where known. Usage of bob for shilling dates back to the late 1700s. Originally (16th-19thC) the slang word flag was used for an English fourpenny groat coin, derived possibly from Middle Low German word 'Vleger' meaning a coin worth 'more than a Bremer groat' (Cassells). ayrton senna/ayrton = tenner (ten pounds, 10) - cockney rhyming slang created in the 1980s or early 90s, from the name of the peerless Brazilian world champion Formula One racing driver, Ayrton Senna (1960-94), who won world titles in 1988, 90 and 91, before his tragic death at San Marino in 1994. bag/bag of sand = grand = one thousand pounds (1,000), seemingly recent cockney rhyming slang, in use from around the mid-1990s in Greater London; perhaps more widely too. The word flag has been used since the 1500s as a slang expression for various types of money, and more recently for certain notes. Pinch Another word for stealing, or purchasing something at a heavily discounted rate. From cockney rhyming slang, bread and honey = money, and which gave rise to the secondary rhyming slang 'poppy', from poppy red = bread. Dog's bollocks - a person or thing that is the best of its kind. 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. quarter = five shillings (5/-) from the 1800s, meaning a quarter of a pound. Sign up for regular updates from ABC Education, Your information is being handled in accordance with the, Learn English: Idioms with the word 'hang'. 'Cheeky monkey' is an expression we use when someone is being mischievous and playful. Example: Are you coming to my birthday bash next Saturday? Silver featured strongly in the earliest history of British money, so it's pleasing that the word still occurs in modern money slang. British slang & colloquialisms: see an A-Z listing of British slang, colloquialisms and dialect words and phrases including Cockney rhyming phrases. Tanner - 6d or sixpence. 8. Learn more. 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. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. Follow our writing guidelines and make your words COUNT! Veg-out - take it easy, relax, do nothing for a while. * /There is [] A Dictionary of American Idioms monkey Derivation in the USA would likely also have been influenced by the slang expression 'Jewish Flag' or 'Jews Flag' for a $1 bill, from early 20th century, being an envious derogatory reference to perceived and stereotypical Jewish success in business and finance. 3. Have you ever overheard some rather strange terms for money? 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. 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. Bender. These Marines (fighting Sailors) were known as Squids (I, myself, was a Squid in the latter 1900s). oner = (pronounced 'wunner'), commonly now meaning one hundred pounds; sometimes one thousand pounds, depending on context. 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). Brummie - native of Birmingham (colloquial). Jimmy - "Jimmy Riddle" = piddle = urinate. The modern form of farthing was first recorded in English around 1280 when it altered from ferthing to farthing. "No more monkeying around! 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. Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London . Here the top 80 most used Irish slang phrases. Modern slang from London, apparently originating in the USA in the 1930s. About to do. is commonly used to represent that someone is trying to avoid spilling a secret or saying something inappropriate. 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. "Gob" is a British expression for "mouth". Let's get serious about the project." "They have been monkeying around so they did not get anything done." To make a monkey out of someone 'To make a monkey out of someone' means to make someone look silly. Rosie - Cockney rhyming slang for tea from "Rosie Lee.". 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. Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. Lost the plot - to become upset, angry, irrational. Trolley dolly - air stewardess (informal). marygold/marigold = a million pounds (1,000,000). farthing = a quarter of an old penny (d) - not slang, a proper word in use (in slightly different form - feorthung) since the end of the first millenium, and in this list mainly to clarify that the origin of the word is not from 'four things', supposedly and commonly believed from the times when coins were split to make pieces of smaller value, but actually (less excitingly) from Old English feortha, meaning fourth, corresponding to Old Frisian fiardeng, meaning a quarter of a mark, and similar Germanic words meaning four and fourth. 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. 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). Other variations occur, including the misunderstanding of these to be 'measures', which has become slang for money in its own right. 1 shilling = 12 pence. Let us know in the comments below. Bob - one shilling. cock and hen = ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). It was a monkey see, monkey do sort of situation. 2022 - 2023 Times Mojo - All Rights Reserved Manx - Gaelic-derived language of the Isle of Man. Originally Answered: Why is a persons home a drum in cockney rhyming slang? 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. two and a kick = half a crown (2/6), from the early 1700s, based on the basic (not cockney) rhyming with 'two and six'. Perhaps based on jack meaning a small thing, although there are many possible different sources. Jelly - fruit-flavored gelatin dessert or slang for valium as in "jellies". A popular slang word like bob arguably develops a life of its own. Not actually slang, more an informal and extremely common pre-decimalisation term used as readily as 'two-and-six' in referring to that amount. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. 11. Interestingly mill is also a non-slang technical term for a tenth of a USA cent, or one-thousandth of a dollar, which is an accounts term only - there is no coinage for such an amount. Botch - mess up, ruin; as in "the plumber botched the repair". Apparently we imported the word grand, which means a thousand, from the States. Back in the 1960s, it was illegal to be gay in the UK and so gay men began to use a kind of code language or slang that was a mix of Italian, Romany and rhyming slang. moola = money. Jib - to gain entry without paying usually to a football stadium. This is what I call brass monkey weather. lolly = money. Bung is also a verb, meaning to bribe someone by giving cash. Dunce - an unintelligent person, so called after the much-ridiculed 13th century Scottish theologian John Duns Scotus. 11. In the 18th century 'bobstick' was a shillings-worth of gin. Fixin' to. 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. Much of it derives from the designs on the notes - five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds. 5. In fact 'silver' coins are now made of cupro-nickel 75% copper, 25% nickel (the 20p being 84% and 16% for some reason). Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. Even if you never actually get anywhere near the sound of Bow bells, it is handy pub quiz knowledge to have in your locker. motsa/motsah/motzer = money. Old Firm - collective name for the Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers. Black stuff. 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. Covidiot - someone who ignores health advice about COVID-19 similar to Morona. The word can actually be traced back to Roman times, when a 'Denarius Grossus' was a 'thick penny' (equivalent). US and Canadian slang. Toad in the Hole - traditional English dish of sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter. Slang words or phrases develop over time. archer = two thousand pounds (2,000), late 20th century, from the Jeffrey Archer court case in which he was alleged to have bribed call-girl Monica Coughlan with this amount. 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. Filters. 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. live, learn and work. 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. Meaning. gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). Blag - a robbery (noun), to rob or scrounge (verb). The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. It was inspired by a monkey on the 500 Rupee banknote. Changes in coin composition necessarily have to stay ahead of economic attractions offered by the scrap metal trade. "I never thought my friend would get married again but I just received her wedding invitation. Cockney Rhyming Slang - a common word replaced with a rhyming pair of words or longer phrase and then omitting the rhyming word, for example, "Apples and pears" (= stairs, becomes "apples"), butcher's hook (look, becomes "butcher's"), loaf of bread (head, becomes "loaf"). Offie - off license (liquor store to Americans). Filters. Commonly used in speech as 'some silver' or 'any silver', for example: "Have you got any silver for the car-park?" Probably related to 'motsa' below. 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. Fag - cigarette, "ciggie", hence fag end (stub) and fag packet. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Pommy - a British person (derogatory, especially used by Australians). joey = much debate about this: According to my . Meaning - Monkey Emoji 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. mill = a million dollars or a million pounds. 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. Roadman - someone well-acquainted with their local area. Proper - done well; cf. A `pony is 25 pounds, a `monkey 500. 2. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. 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. doubloons = money. From the 1960s, becoming widely used in the 1970s. Hog also extended to US 10c and dollar coins, apparently, according to Cassells because coins carried a picture of a pig. Jack is much used in a wide variety of slang expressions. To illustrate these glorious slang expressions, we teamed up with Art Money to create visuals using ACTUAL money, with each image created using the currency of the country of the term's origin. Queer the pitch- spoil the business in hand already discussed. In this sort of dipping or dibbing, a dipping rhyme would be spoken, coinciding with the pointing or touchung of players in turn, eliminating the child on the final word, for example: dinarly/dinarla/dinaly = a shilling (1/-), from the mid-1800s, also transferred later to the decimal equivalent 5p piece, from the same roots that produced the 'deaner' shilling slang and variations, i.e., Roman denarius and then through other European dinar coins and variations. Chav - derogatory term for member of the "lower classes". ", "Why do you want to make a monkey out of me? The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600s England, derived from Latin (quid meaning 'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). Also shortened to beesum (from bees and, bees 'n', to beesum). pony = twenty-five pounds (25). Other British expressions to do with money To be quids in We use this expression a lot. Manc - Mancunian, a native of Manchester. Their bonding sessions come as a reminder that we cannot live alone. . "Gobsmacked" means to be utterly shocked or surprised beyond belief. Alcohol and words relating to pubs and being drunk feature prominently in British slang. 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. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. 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. In the US a ned was a ten dollar gold coin, and a half-ned was a five dollar coin. The British word Quid originated from the American Colonies (circa-1700s) when the descendants of the original Scots-Irish colonists returned to the seas as Marines for what was to become the U.S. Navy. big ben - ten pounds (10) the sum, and a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang. Probably London slang from the early 1800s. Bloody hell: To express anger, shock or surprise. Cock up - a mistake, as a verb "to cock up" is to make a mistake. ", "They have been monkeying around so they did not get anything done.". Contributors: Gareth Thomas, Beydaan Dihoud, Joji Imamiya. 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. madza caroon = half-a-crown (2/6) from the mid 1800s. Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony, therefore this image was also connection to the cash amount. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. Very occasionally older people, students of English or History, etc., refer to loose change of a small amount of coin money as groats. silver = silver coloured coins, typically a handful or piggy-bankful of different ones - i.e., a mixture of 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p. 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 spondulicks slang can be traced back to the mid-1800s in England (source: Cassells), but is almost certainly much older. Logically 'half a ton' is slang for 50. I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. Use: He's bladdered come 'ed we best swerve the next bar. Banjaxed. 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. ? Before decimalisation, British money was made up of pounds, shillings, and pence as follows: 1 pound = 20 shillings. Add a little spark to your vocabulary with Scottish slang. 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. 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. Tart - (archaic) slang for prostitute or woman of easy virtue. Accadacca - How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC. An obscure point of nostalgic trivia about the tanner is apparently (thanks J Veitch) a rhyme, from around the mid-1900s, sung to the tune of Rule Britannia: "Rule Brittania, two tanners make a bob, three make eighteen pence and four two bob" My limited research suggests this rhyme was not from London. Curate's egg - something that is partly good and partly bad. On the front foot - meaning positive, active, attacking (from cricket). monkey in British English (mk ) noun 1. any of numerous long-tailed primates excluding the prosimians ( lemurs, tarsiers, etc): comprise the families Cercopithecidae ( Old World monkeys), Cebidae (New World monkeys), and Callithricidae ( marmosets ) See Old World monkey, New World monkey Related adjective: simian 2. any primate except man 3. Cassells also suggests possible connection with 'spondylo-' referring to spine or vertebrae, based on the similarity between a stack of coins and a spine, which is referenced in etymologist Michael Quinion's corespondence with a Doug Wilson, which cites the reference to piled coins (and thereby perhaps the link to sponylo/spine) thus: "Spondulics - coin piled for counting" from the 1867 book A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools, by John Mitchell Bonnell. 125 Australian Slang Words & Phrases. 10. Gasper - cigarette (see fag) - now rather archaic. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. sick squid = six pounds (6), from the late 20th century joke - see squid. A 'double-finnif' (or double-fin, etc) means ten pounds; 'half-a-fin' (half-a-finnip, etc) would have been two pounds ten shillings (equal to 2.50). Why Do Cross Country Runners Have Skinny Legs? Pint - unit of beer drunk in pubs (0.568 liters). The large Australian 'wonga' pigeon is almost certainly unrelated yennep/yenep/yennap/yennop = a penny (1d particularly, although also means a decimal penny, 1p). Many of its expressions have passed into common language, and the creation of new ones is no longer restricted to Cockneys. nugget/nuggets = a pound coin (1) or money generally. 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. Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. Grand - a thousand (colloquial) usually referring to money. 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. Whinge - to complain, thus a whinger is a person who complains, whines. Along with the silver crown, half-crown and sixpence, the silver threepence made its first appearance in 1551 during the reign of Edward VI (1547-53). Like most languages, English has its fair share of slang terms related to a variety of topics and money is no exception. Hello MaryParker, Thank you for your comments. How do you say monkey in British? 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). For ex: Wheres my share of the filthy lucre then? You can use it to refer to a person or an object. In parts of the US 'bob' was used for the US dollar coin. plum = One hundred thousand pounds (100,000). From there it came to mean home and was reattached to Drum and Bass. It is spoken mainly by young, working-class people in multicultural parts of London. seymour = salary of 100,000 a year - media industry slang - named after Geoff Seymour (1947-2009) the advertising copywriter said to have been the first in his profession to command such a wage. Folding, folding stuff and folding money are all popular slang in London. It is believed these terms were imported from India by returning servicemen. Less common variations on the same theme: wamba, wanga, or womba. Clanger: A mistake. pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers = two pounds (2), an irresistible pun. Verb. 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. 9. shrapnel = loose change, especially a heavy and inconvenient pocketful, as when someone repays a small loan in lots of coins. Presumably there were different versions and issues of the groat coin, which seems to have been present in the coinage from the 14th to the 19th centuries. She is such a cheeky monkey. 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. NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training. Chuffed: Pleased, delighted. This is short for the word "beverages," usually alcoholic, most often beer. brown = a half-penny or ha'penny. A slang word used in Britain and chiefly London from around 1750-1850. Used either to show sympathy, or to soften an insult. Broke: we all know this one, when you're "skint" (British slang) or poor, you can consider yourself broke. wad = money. From cockney rhyming slang clodhopper (= copper). Bash A "bash" is a party. Lit - Amazing or exciting. half, half a bar/half a sheet/half a nicker = ten shillings (10/-), from the 1900s, and to a lesser degree after decimalisation, fifty pence (50p), based on the earlier meanings of bar and sheet for a pound. Interestingly also, pre-decimal coins (e.g., shillings, florins, sixpences) were minted in virtually solid silver up until 1920, when they were reduced to a still impressive 50% silver content. What does pony mean in British slang? From the cockney rhyming slang and metaphoric use of 'bread'. Caser was slang also for a US dollar coin, and the US/Autralian slang logically transferred to English, either or all because of the reference to silver coin, dollar slang for a crown, or the comparable value, as was. From the late 18th century according to most sources, London slang, but the precise origin is not known. We live it, we breathe it, we make our living from it. "You should watch the mens team play cricket. ", "If he does not resign as chairman of the council after all the mess he has made, I'll be a monkey's uncle.". Rows - Medieval galleried, timber walkways above a lower level of shops inChester. 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. Yennep backslang seems first to have appeared along with the general use of backslang in certain communities in the 1800s. Origin unknown. Wow. medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers = money. (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. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. 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