First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we `Ton in this sense may come from the name for a measurement of 100 cubic feet. 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. Scunnered - tired or exhausted (Glaswegian). Fuzz - old, derogatory slang for the police. Scottish Slang for Money. generalise/generalize = a shilling (1/-), from the mid 1800s, thought to be backslang. 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. readies = money, usually banknotes. garden/garden gate = eight pounds (8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. Stiver also earlier referred to any low value coin. Magic Mushrooms - psychedelic mushrooms, Psilocybe semilanceata or the liberty cap, noted for the "nipple" at the top of the head. Example: Are you coming to my birthday bash next Saturday? These pages are best viewed using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, or IE. Wor lad - my boyfriend. Read more. Dope - Awesome. And this is only the tip of the iceberg! Let us know in the comments below. They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. Origin is not known for sure. Z-Cars - 1960s and 70s TV police drama set in Liverpool. From the 19th century sus law (from "suspected person" which gave police the right to stop and search. shekels/sheckles = money. dosh = slang for a reasonable amount of spending money, for instance enough for a 'night-out'. Toodle pip - archaic, posh form for "goodbye". A Dictionary of American Idioms monkey business [monkey business] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. ", "They have been monkeying around so they did not get anything done.". Plural uses singular form, eg., 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it..', or 'I won five hundred quid on the horses yesterday..'. When the pound coin appeared it was immediately christened a 'Maggie', based seemingly on the notion that it was 'a brassy piece that thinks it's a sovereign" (ack J Jamieson, Sep 2007) If you have more detail about where and when this slang arose and is used, please let me know. Originated in the USA in the 1920s, logically an association with the literal meaning - full or large. Mispronunciation of sovs, short for sovereigns. Double click on any word for its definition. greens = money, usually old-style green coloured pound notes, but actully applying to all money or cash-earnings since the slang derives from the cockney rhyming slang: 'greengages' (= wages). Sadly the word is almost obsolete now, although the groat coin is kept alive in Maundy Money. pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers = two pounds (2), an irresistible pun. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. We use this expression a lot. Monkeys are primates. Yorkshire Pudding - side dish with roast beef made with eggs, flour, salt, milk and beef dripping cooked in the oven. Here are the most common and/or interesting British slang money words and expressions, with meanings, and origins where known. shrapnel = loose change, especially a heavy and inconvenient pocketful, as when someone repays a small loan in lots of coins. When writing in English you put the currency symbol in front of the digits, so 10, 150 or $20. 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). "That's a barmy idea". Kitchen sink - a very large number of things, whether needed or not. 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. Essex girl - brash, materialistic young woman supposedly common in Essex and the Home Counties. Ned - non-educated delinquent (Scottish backronym). Verb. Below is the UK transcription for 'monkey': Modern IPA: mkj. 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. Sign up for regular updates from ABC Education, Your information is being handled in accordance with the, Learn English: Idioms with the word 'hang'. Litty again - exciting or wild once more. 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. 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. As India was under the rule of the British Empire, the term made it over to London, despite the fact there were no monkeys on British currency. Skive - slang for slack off, avoid work (noun; skiver). I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Meaning. 1. Your written English leaves a trace of you: your ideas, your expertise, your brand. The modern 75% copper 25% nickel composition was introduced in 1947. 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). Proper - done well; cf. He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a . 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. Wonga 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. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. 5. 8. From the 1800s, by association with the small fish. The re-introduction of the groat thus enabled many customers to pay the exact fare, and so the cab drivers used the term Joey as a derisory reference for the fourpenny groats. BOODLE. I can hear you asking me- Louisa why are we now talking about a baby horse? It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. Britain-Visitor.com provides travel information on Britain's cities and the essential when and where and how to get there. What does ? Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. Bloody hell: To express anger, shock or surprise. 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. The British population most definitely has an island mentality and this was never more apparent than when the euro was introduced on January 1st 1999. Bagsy - it's mine; succeed in securing (something) for oneself. Shagged out - (or just shagged) tired, exhausted. These Marines (fighting Sailors) were known as Squids (I, myself, was a Squid in the latter 1900s). 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. Cheeky monkey is an expression we use when someone is being mischievous and playful. Expand your U.K. slang vocabulary by learning some key British slang words and what they mean. Wacky - funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. Cassells says these were first recorded in the 1930s, and suggests they all originated in the US, which might be true given that banknotes arguably entered very wide use earlier in the US than in the UK. Goblin mode - describes "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour. "No more monkeying around! It's what is known as dehumanizing language, "language that deprives a person of human qualities or attributes.". A more obscure British term, 'brass monkeys' is used to refer to extremely cold weather. 4. In addition, Britain-specific words are included. 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. 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. Tea: means gossip, a common phrase used in the US is: "Spill the tea". 3. Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. The term coppers is also slang for a very small amount of money, or a cost of something typically less than a pound, usually referring to a bargain or a sum not worth thinking about, somewhat like saying 'peanuts' or 'a row of beans'. Also relates to (but not necessairly derived from) the expression especially used by children, 'dibs' meaning a share or claim of something, and dibbing or dipping among a group of children, to determine shares or winnings or who would be 'it' for a subsequent chasing game. 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. 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. Lit - Amazing or exciting. 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. Your response is private Was this worth your time? Filters. 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. Yennep is backslang. Bad dose. Bill - the "check" in British English after eating in a restaurant. From cockney rhyming slang clodhopper (= copper). Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. Spelt the same P-O-N-Y pony actually means 25 pounds. A dosser is the noun. Prat - stuck up, incompetent or stupid person. Spondoolicks is possibly from Greek, according to Cassells - from spondulox, a type of shell used for early money. How much money does a monkey cost? 4. the head of a pile-driver ( monkey engine) or of some similar mechanical device. "The company fired its accountant because there was some monkey business going on with the accounts. 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. Normally refers to notes and a reasonable amount of spending money. Therefore one quid, five quid, fifty quid. 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. There were twenty Stivers to the East India Co florin or gulden, which was then equal to just over an English old penny (1d). smackers/smackeroos = pounds (or dollars) - in recent times not usually used in referring to a single 1 or a low amount, instead usually a hundred or several hundreds, but probably not several thousands, when grand would be preferred. 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). 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. Rows - Medieval galleried, timber walkways above a lower level of shops inChester. Meaning: used to describe extremely cold or extremely hot weather. Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). - cheers, good health (Welsh). mean in texting? If you want to read more about cockney rhyming slang and money, read this BBC article. Home | About | Contact | Copyright | Report Content | Privacy | Cookie Policy | Terms & Conditions | Sitemap. bender = sixpence (6d) Another slang term with origins in the 1800s when the coins were actually solid silver, from the practice of testing authenticity by biting and bending the coin, which would being made of near-pure silver have been softer than the fakes. Modern slang from London, apparently originating in the USA in the 1930s. For ex: Ill be back in a minute, Im just off to spend a penny! More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. Bint - (archaic) slang for woman (from the Arabic). Bung - as a verb meaning to throw as a noun, or a bribe. 1 shilling = 12 pence. Notes: Money in general; reference to banknotes from a bank. 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. Used to describe a stupid, nasty or useless person. sobs = pounds. live, learn and work. The pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. English slang referenced by Brewer in 1870, origin unclear, possibly related to the Virgin Mary, and a style of church windows featuring her image. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. Brassed off - annoyed and unhappy feeling. (modifier) nautical. The Brief: The speak no evil monkey ? "Mixing drinks last night was a terrible idea. When soldiers returned from India, they had a 500 rupee note which had an image of a monkey. Though familiar to many Londoners, the term "monkey" is actually Indian slang for a 500 rupee note, which used to have a monkey on it. Here are some of the most common expressions still alive in the UK: General Money Slang - Current Money Money - Bread, dough, spondoolicks, moolah, wedge, lolly One pound - Nicker, quid, squid, smacker Ten pounds - Tenner Five pounds - Fiver, bluey (because they are blue in colour) 25 pounds - Pony 50 pounds - Half a ton, bullseye 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. 2. This mostly means a deliciously spicy Mexican taco, but is also slang for money. 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. . Originates from the Dutch 'bodel', meaning personal effects. Accadacca - How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC. Space cadet - flaky, lightheaded, or forgetful person. fin/finn/finny/finnif/finnip/finnup/finnio/finnif = five pounds (5), from the early 1800s. From the fact that a ton is a measurement of 100 cubic feet of capacity (for storage, loading, etc). 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. 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. Also used regularly is a 'score ' which is. It means to vomit from excessive drinking. Logically 'half a ton' is slang for 50. From the early 1900s, and like many of these slang words popular among Londoners (ack K Collard) from whom such terms spread notably via City traders and also the armed forces during the 2nd World War. Less common variations on the same theme: wamba, wanga, or womba. 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). Once the issue of silver threepences in the United Kingdom had ceased there was a tendency for the coins to be hoarded and comparatively few were ever returned to the Royal Mint. For ex: My neighbour has his own business and hes got heaps of dosh. coal = a penny (1d). Bung is also a verb, meaning to bribe someone by giving cash. monkey meaning: 1. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. 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. The spondulicks slang can be traced back to the mid-1800s in England (source: Cassells), but is almost certainly much older. Incidentally the Hovis bakery was founded in 1886 and the Hovis name derives from Latin, Hominis Vis, meaning 'strength of man'. Yonks - in a long time as in "I haven't seen you in yonks.". Cheeky Monkey. 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. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. 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. 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. The word has been traced back from the late 18th century in London and has a vast range of suggestions for its etymology. When you monkey around, or monkey with something, you fool about or fiddle with it. For example, 'You need to wear a coat today, it's brass monkeys outside.' 11. Cockney rhyming slang for pony. For ex: Susan just had a new extension built onto her house, its beautiful but it must have cost her an arm and a leg! 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. Tom Mix was a famous cowboy film star from 1910-1940. Jelly - fruit-flavored gelatin dessert or slang for valium as in "jellies". Red Top - tabloid newspaper such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Star. Hog also extended to US 10c and dollar coins, apparently, according to Cassells because coins carried a picture of a pig. British slang & colloquialisms: see an A-Z listing of British slang, colloquialisms and dialect words and phrases including Cockney rhyming phrases. This is what I call brass monkey weather. What does Kermit mean? Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. She is such a cheeky monkey. Texas slang words and phrases. There is possibly an association with plumb-bob, being another symbolic piece of metal, made of lead and used to mark a vertical position in certain trades, notably masons. Equivalent to 10p - a tenth of a pound. carpet = three pounds (3) or three hundred pounds (300), or sometimes thirty pounds (30). London slang from the 1980s, derived simply from the allusion to a thick wad of banknotes. I've spent all morning chundering it back out.". Alternatively beer vouchers, which commonly meant pound notes, prior to their withdrawal. squid = a pound (1). (Thanks L Cunliffe). Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. Kecks (kex) - trousers or sometimes underpants - mainly used in northern England and Northern Ireland. "He started an exercise routine and his wife copied it. 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