Mezzo/madza was and is potentially confused with, and popularity supported by, the similar 'motsa' (see motsa entry). 9. 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). The most likely origin of this slang expression is from the joke (circa 1960-70s) about a shark who meets his friend the whale one day, and says, "I'm glad I bumped into you - here's that sick squid I owe you..", stiver/stuiver/stuyver = an old penny (1d). gen = a shilling (1/-), from the mid 1800s, either based on the word argent, meaning silver (from French and Latin, and used in English heraldry, i.e., coats of arms and shields, to refer to the colour silver), or more likely a shortening of 'generalize', a peculiar supposed backslang of shilling, which in its own right was certainly slang for shilling, and strangely also the verb to lend a shilling. joey = much debate about this: According to my . EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. 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). So although the fourpenny groat and the silver threepenny coin arguably lay the major claim to the Joey title, usage also seems to have extended to later coins, notably the silver sixpence (tanner) and the brass-nickel threepenny bit. Bail - To cancel plans. 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. nicker = a pound (1). In his stand-up show, British comedian Michael MacIntyre said: "You can actually use any word in the English language and substitute it to mean drunk. Shortening of 'grand' (see below). "He started an exercise routine and his wife copied it. London has for centuries been extremely cosmopolitan, both as a travel hub and a place for foreign people to live and work and start their own busineses. Money Slang Special Whats the meaning of Fiver, Tenner and Bluey in British Slang? big ben - ten pounds (10) the sum, and a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang. These slang words for money are most likely derived from the older use of the word madza, absorbed into English from Italian mezzo meaning half, which was used as a prefix in referring to half-units of coinage (and weights), notably medza caroon (half-crown), madza poona (half-sovereign) and by itself, medza meaning a ha'penny (d). 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. For example, 'You need to wear a coat today, it's brass monkeys outside.' 11. You'll notice a lot of abbreviations here, which is all part of the fun of learning how to speak Texas slang. 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. Therefore one quid, five quid, fifty quid. 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. The symbol for a penny was a "d" (for the Latin denarius), and for a shilling, it was "s" (the Latin solidus). 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. Nutmeg - soccer term to dribble or pass the ball through the legs of an opponent. There were twenty Stivers to the East India Co florin or gulden, which was then equal to just over an English old penny (1d). Hamsterkaufing - stockpiling or hoarding before a Covid-19 lockdown. Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. garden/garden gate = eight pounds (8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. The word has been traced back from the late 18th century in London and has a vast range of suggestions for its etymology. Separately bottle means money generally and particularly loose coinage, from the custom of passing a bottle for people to give money to a busker or street entertainer. Also shortened to beesum (from bees and, bees 'n', to beesum). Fag - cigarette, "ciggie", hence fag end (stub) and fag packet. And 59 per cent don't understand what . If you have any problems, please let us know. lady/Lady Godiva = fiver (five pounds, 5) cockney rhyming slang, and like many others in this listing is popular in London and the South East of England, especially East London. It is also used to express shock, awe, and/or amazement. hog = confusingly a shilling (1/-) or a sixpence (6d) or a half-crown (2/6), dating back to the 1600s in relation to shilling. Totty - (uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively (sexist and offensive). Dosh appears to have originated in this form in the US in the 19th century, and then re-emerged in more popular use in the UK in the mid-20th century. Lass - young woman (Scotland and northern England). Plastered Another British slang term for being drunk. Old Firm - collective name for the Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers. "He thought he could make a monkey out of his friend but he was not prepared for what was coming. Take a look at these English expressions involving monkeys. ned = a guinea. shit faced. In the 18th century 'bobstick' was a shillings-worth of gin. pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers = two pounds (2), an irresistible pun. However, in the UK, someone that's "p*ssed" is most probably drunk. Gasper - cigarette (see fag) - now rather archaic. 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. 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). The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. It was a monkey see, monkey do sort of situation. Brewer says that the 'modern groat was introduced in 1835, and withdrawn in 1887'. "The company fired its accountant because there was some monkey business going on with the accounts. Tarmac - material used for surfacing roads or other outdoor areas, named after its Scottish inventor John Louden McAdam. Baccy: shortened word for "tobacco;" also, "wacky backy" means marijuana. Blag - a robbery (noun), to rob or scrounge (verb). Boob tube - tight-fitting strapless top made of stretchy material. Not used in the singular for in this sense, for example a five pound note would be called a 'jacks'. 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. Very occasionally older people, students of English or History, etc., refer to loose change of a small amount of coin money as groats. For example 'Lend us twenty sovs..' Sov is not generally used in the singular for one pound. Butty - a filled or open sandwich (Northern England). Variations on the same theme are motser, motzer, motza, all from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) word 'matzah', the unleavened bread originally shaped like a large flat disk, but now more commonly square (for easier packaging and shipping), eaten at Passover, which suggests earliest origins could have been where Jewish communities connected with English speakers, eg., New York or London (thanks G Kahl). Your written English leaves a trace of you: your ideas, your expertise, your brand. 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! chip = a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. A final claim is that pony might derive from the Latin words legem pone, which means, payment of money, cash down which begins on the March 25, a quarter day in the old financial calendar, when payments and debts came due. Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. There are so many slang words for being drunk and new ones are constantly being invented. In fact the term was obsolete before 1971 decimalisation when the old ha'penny (d) was removed from the currency in 1969. tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie = ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1p). . Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry). Probably London slang from the early 1800s. Bloody hell: To express anger, shock or surprise. Loaded - having a great deal of money; rich or alternatively under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 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. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. Black stuff. Tea - often used as an alternative for dinner up North, thus "What time is tea, mam, I'm starving". 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. Originates from the Dutch 'bodel', meaning personal effects. Tony Benn (born 1925) served in the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1960s and 70s, and as an MP from 1950-2001, after which he remains (at time of writing this, Feb 2008) a hugely significant figure in socialist ideals and politics, and a very wise and impressive man. Shortened to 'G' (usually plural form also) or less commonly 'G's'. But what about slang words that are used around the world? A variation of sprat, see below. Missing beagle limps home with broken leg 10 days after being hit by train, Hundreds of schoolchildren stage more 'TikTok protests' over toilet rules, Fake psychiatrist jailed after conning NHS out of 1,300,000. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted for sterling to mean 500. dollar = slang for money, commonly used in singular form, eg., 'Got any dollar?..'. long tails. Also find guides to Britain's transport system including roads, trains, buses and airports. Clanger: A mistake. When pocket watches first became fashionable, they were held against the body by use of a small chain. 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. By some it has been suggested that in the 18th century 25 was the typical price paid for a small horse, although historians have contested this is not accurate and far too much money. Bread (general term for money). Example: "I only paid a monkey for it." 6. In every country there are slang terms for money. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. A penny-pincher is someone who is unwilling to spend money. What does pony mean in British slang? Let us know in the comments below. Wangle - to get something through deception or deviousness. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. Bullseye (fifty pounds sterling). Pigs in Blankets - small sausages wrapped in bacon. ", "Wheres the originality? The slang ned appears in at least one of Bruce Alexander's Blind Justice series of books (thanks P Bostock for raising this) set in London's Covent Garden area and a period of George III's reign from around 1760 onwards. There is also a view that Joey transferred from the threepenny bit to the sixpence when the latter became a more usual minimum fare in London taxi-cabs. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. As with deanar the pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. 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. tom/tom mix = six pounds (6), 20th century cockney rhyming slang, (Tom Mix = six). "That's a barmy idea". 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. Dunce - an unintelligent person, so called after the much-ridiculed 13th century Scottish theologian John Duns Scotus. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. Also expressed in cockney rhying slang as 'macaroni'. (Thanks L Cunliffe). Have you ever overheard some rather strange terms for money? bob = shilling (1/-), although in recent times now means a pound or a dollar in certain regions. We also use the term smackers instead of pounds but rarely in the singular form. He is just being a cheeky monkey.". Dosh (general term for money). As the label suggests, speakers of MLE come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and live in diverse neighbourhoods. Also used regularly is a 'score ' which is. Bung is also a verb, meaning to bribe someone by giving cash. Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. In addition, Britain-specific words are included. A grand is used when talking in thousands. More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. 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. Red Top - tabloid newspaper such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Star. 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. Britain Tourist Info. 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. 'Monkey see, monkey do' refers to copying someones actions without putting much thought into it. Sadly the word is almost obsolete now, although the groat coin is kept alive in Maundy Money. 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. These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. simon = sixpence (6d). Expand your U.K. slang vocabulary by learning some key British slang words and what they mean. Our 10-click quote form is specifically designed so that even the busiest client can upload a document in their 3-minute coffee break. Follow our writing guidelines and make your words COUNT! 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. Try English Trackers' professional editing and rewriting service. Commonly used in speech as 'some silver' or 'any silver', for example: "Have you got any silver for the car-park?" Watering hole - this is one of the many British slang words for a pub. I personally feel (and think I recall) there was some transference of the Joey slang to the sixpence (tanner) some time after the silver threepenny coin changed to the brass threepenny bit (which was during the 1930-40s), and this would have been understandable because the silver sixpence was similar to the silver threepence, albeit slightly larger. Alcohol and words relating to pubs and being drunk feature prominently in British slang. Pie off - to reject, dump (romantic partner). "Did you just whistle at that old lady? Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". This coincides with the view that Hume re-introduced the groat to counter the cab drivers' scam. Example: Are you coming to my birthday bash next Saturday? Jag - alternative word for vaccine jab in Scotland. Bollocks - testicles or something that is nonsense. Modern London slang. Covidiot - someone who ignores health advice about COVID-19 similar to Morona. Modern slang from London, apparently originating in the USA in the 1930s. 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. Slang. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? The . Do Men Still Wear Button Holes At Weddings? Partridge doesn't say). Strop - displeased, angry, as in "having a strop". Chalupa. Lairy - loud, brash, flashy or cunning or conceited. Locktail - a cocktail invented or enjoyed during Covid-19 lockdown. Bairn - child (Scottish, northern English). Flog a dead horse - waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be changed. Accadacca - How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC. Used to describe a stupid, nasty or useless person. In fact 'silver' coins are now made of cupro-nickel 75% copper, 25% nickel (the 20p being 84% and 16% for some reason). Porkies . carpet = three pounds (3) or three hundred pounds (300), or sometimes thirty pounds (30). "You should watch the mens team play cricket. Shiv - contemporary slang for knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon (often homemade). Ice Cream Vans - mobile ice cream vendors (read more). We assure you, it's no monkey business! 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. (Thanks to R Maguire for raising this one.). Dope - Awesome. Zebra Crossing - black and white pedestrian crossing. bunce = money, usually unexpected gain and extra to an agreed or predicted payment, typically not realised by the payer. 21. And today'post is about where it all started - British Slang! Read more. 5. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. An example of erroneous language becoming real actual language through common use. From the 1960s, becoming widely used in the 1970s. Century (one hundred pounds sterling). 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. Closie - Dundee parlance for a stairwell in a block of flats. These Marines (fighting Sailors) were known as Squids (I, myself, was a Squid in the latter 1900s). thick'un/thick one = a crown (5/-) or a sovereign, from the mid 1800s. monkey meaning: 1. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. Monkey business means doing something mischievous. First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we 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. Her Majesty's Pleasure - in jail; see porridge, inside. nicker a pound (1). What does Kermit mean? 11. 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. 2. The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. Usually retains singular form (G rather than G's) for more than one thousand pounds, for example "Twenty G". mill = a million dollars or a million pounds. Roadman - someone well-acquainted with their local area. 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? 11. `Ton in this sense may come from the name for a measurement of 100 cubic feet. This mostly means a deliciously spicy Mexican taco, but is also slang for money. This means that something is incredibly expensive. How do you say monkey in British? The Brief: The speak no evil monkey ? caser/case = five shillings (5/-), a crown coin. Also used regularly is a 'score' which is 20, a 'bullseye' is 50, a 'grand' is 1,000 and a 'deep sea diver' which is 5 (a fiver). Odds and sods - this and that; bits and pieces. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. Rhymes: -ki Hyphenation: monkey Noun []. Bro: just like "mate" in the UK, "bro" means friend . The origins of boodle meaning money are (according to Cassells) probably from the Dutch word 'boedel' for personal effects or property (a person's worth) and/or from the old Scottish 'bodle' coin, worth two Scottish pence and one-sixth of an English penny, which logically would have been pre-decimalisation currency. florin/flo = a two shilling or 'two bob' coin (florin is actually not slang - it's from Latin meaning flower, and a 14th century Florentine coin called the Floren). . 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. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. Pletty (plettie) - Dundonian slang for an open-air communal landing in a block of tenement flats. Bunts also used to refer to unwanted or unaccounted-for goods sold for a crafty gain by workers, and activity typically hidden from the business owner. 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). 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. 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. Initially suggested (Mar 2007) by a reader who tells me that the slang term 'biscuit', meaning 100, has been in use for several years, notably in the casino trade (thanks E). 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. Naff - in bad taste, originally gay slang for heterosexual. Ape and monkey are considered offensive terms when they're used to describe a person of color. What does ? 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