Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry). In earlier times a dollar was slang for an English Crown, five shillings (5/-). The selected samples of fruit and vegetables . Shank - to stab someone with a knife or bladed instrument (slang). The slang term 'silver' in relation to monetary value has changed through time, since silver coins used to be far more valuable. Meaning: used to describe extremely cold or extremely hot weather. It never really caught on and has died out now". long tails. clod = a penny (1d). I am also informed (thanks K Inglott, March 2007) that bob is now slang for a pound in his part of the world (Bath, South-West England), and has also been used as money slang, presumably for Australian dollars, on the Home and Away TV soap series. 'Bob a nob', in the early 1800s meant 'a shilling a head', when estimating costs of meals, etc. `Ton in this sense may come from the name for a measurement of 100 cubic feet. Kettle and Hob is Cockney slang for Watch. Bampot - a foolish, unpleasant, or obnoxious person. Monkey: British slang for 500 pounds sterling; originates from soldiers returning from India, where the 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it. ten bob bit = fifty pence piece (50p). 2. 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. Add a little spark to your vocabulary with Scottish slang. He is just being a cheeky monkey.". Before decimalisation, British money was made up of pounds, shillings, and pence as follows: 1 pound = 20 shillings. 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). Rows - Medieval galleried, timber walkways above a lower level of shops inChester. ned = a guinea. Mug - stupid, gullible or ignorant person. Smackers (1920s) and smackeroos (1940s) are probably US extensions of the earlier English slang smack/smacks (1800s) meaning a pound note/notes, which Cassells slang dictionary suggests might be derived from the notion of smacking notes down onto a table. brass = 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). dibs/dibbs = money. 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). Below is the UK transcription for 'monkey': Modern IPA: mkj. In spoken use 'a garden' is eight pounds. Copper (term to describe the one and two pence coins). Trolley dolly - air stewardess (informal). plum = One hundred thousand pounds (100,000). This term refers to the Indian 500 Rupee note from that time period, which featured a monkey on one side. I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Bless your heart. 5. 'Cheeky monkey' is an expression we use when someone is being mischievous and playful. Ned was traditionally used as a generic name for a man around these times, as evidenced by its meaning extending to a thuggish man or youth, or a petty criminal (US), and also a reference (mainly in the US) to the devil, (old Ned, raising merry Ned, etc). Paddy - temper fit, an Irishman (derogatory). Polari- secret language used by gay men to avoid detection before homosexuality was decriminalized in 1967. We say a heap of dosh or heaps of dosh. Cockney rhyming slang, from 'poppy red' = bread, in turn from 'bread and honey' = money. wonga = money. It is spoken mainly by young, working-class people in multicultural parts of London. MONKEY. 6. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). How much money does a monkey cost? Wino - used as a noun for a drunk, alcoholic, especially one who is homeless. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. yennaps/yennups = money. The . Howff - meeting place, familiar haunt, usually a pub (Scotland) and in Dundee The Howff is a famous cemetery. A pony equals 25. Any unethical, illegitimate, or objectionable activity that is furtive or deceitful, e.g., undercover sexual advances, cheating, misuse of public funds, etc. Naff (adj) So 'naff' is a word with an interesting history. 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). The term has since the early 1900s been used by bookmakers and horse-racing, where carpet refers to odds of three-to-one, and in car dealing, where it refers to an amount of 300. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. 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. Nutmeg - soccer term to dribble or pass the ball through the legs of an opponent. See also 'pair of knickers'. 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. For ex: Wheres my share of the filthy lucre then? They are more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Modern slang from London, apparently originating in the USA in the 1930s. For ex: My aunt left me five hundred smackers in her will. long-tailed 'un/long-tailed finnip = high value note, from the 1800s and in use to the late 1900s. 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. 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. Manc - Mancunian, a native of Manchester. As with deanar the pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. This is short for the word "beverages," usually alcoholic, most often beer. One pound is subdivided into 100 pence, the singular of which is one penny. 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. Hump - sexual intercourse, or as in "get the hump" - get annoyed, in a bad mood. (Thanks R Maguire for prompting more detail for this one.). 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. We also use the term smackers instead of pounds but rarely in the singular form. But what about slang words that are used around the world? Suggestions of origin include a supposed cockney rhyming slang shortening of bunsen burner (= earner), which is very appealing, but unlikely given the history of the word and spelling, notably that the slang money meaning pre-dated the invention of the bunsen burner, which was devised around 1857. Origin unknown. Brass Monkey Weather. Stiver also earlier referred to any low value coin. 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. For example 'Lend us twenty sovs..' Sov is not generally used in the singular for one pound. Incidentally the Hovis bakery was founded in 1886 and the Hovis name derives from Latin, Hominis Vis, meaning 'strength of man'. dough = money. 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. 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. 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. Yennep is backslang. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). Expand your U.K. slang vocabulary by learning some key British slang words and what they mean. NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training. It is about money in general terms. ", "Why do you want to make a monkey out of me? Chippy (Chippie) - slang for a fish and chip shop. The silver sixpence was produced from 1547-1970, and remained in circulation (although by then it was a copper-based and nickel-coated coin) after decimalisation as the two-and-a-half-pee, until withdrawal in 1980. For ex: I spent over a hundred quid last weekend without even realising it! 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. 'Monkey see, monkey do' refers to copying someones actions without putting much thought into it. 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. Its uncountable, so wed say: For ex: My son just bought a new house for three hundred thousand grand. 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). Possibly rhyming slang linking lollipop to copper. monkey (plural monkeys) . For ex: If I can sell all this stuff second hand then Ill be quids in. 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. Faff - spend time in ineffectual activity. Ice Cream Vans - mobile ice cream vendors (read more). Get an instant price to have your English document edited by professionals. Brassed off - annoyed and unhappy feeling. 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. 04. The word cows means a single pound since technically the word is cow's, from cow's licker. moola = money. a monkey bridge. or What tip shall we leave?" Much of it derives from the designs on the notes - five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds. From the 1920s, and popular slang in fast-moving business, trading, the underworld, etc., until the 1970s when it was largely replaced by 'K'. . Also expressed in cockney rhying slang as 'macaroni'. 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. nicker = a pound (1). We live in a monkey see, monkey do world.". ", "The children will get up to monkey business if we do not keep our eye on them.". 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. Monkey - This originated from the British slang for 500 pounds of sterling. The term was coined by British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note of that era had a picture of a monkey on it. Pommy - a British person (derogatory, especially used by Australians). Hello MaryParker, Thank you for your comments. The word garden features strongly in London, in famous place names such as Hatton Garden, the diamond quarter in the central City of London, and Covent Garden, the site of the old vegetable market in West London, and also the term appears in sexual euphemisms, such as 'sitting in the garden with the gate unlocked', which refers to a careless pregnancy. Brass originated as slang for money by association to the colour of gold coins, and the value of brass as a scrap metal. I am grateful to J Briggs for confirming (March 2008): "I live in Penistone, South Yorks (what we call the West Riding) and it was certainly called a 'Brass Maggie' in my area. Wor lass - my girlfriend. Use: He's bladdered come 'ed we best swerve the next bar. These Marines (fighting Sailors) were known as Squids (I, myself, was a Squid in the latter 1900s). Probably London slang from the early 1800s. Seymour created the classic 1973 Hovis TV advert featuring the baker's boy delivering bread from a bike on an old cobbled hill in a North England town, to the theme of Dvorak's New World symphony played by a brass band. We also refer to a ten pound note as a tenner. Your written English leaves a trace of you: your ideas, your expertise, your brand. ". 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. Budge - move, shift. Play it by ear - proceed instinctively according to circumstances. Less well used slang terms include Lady Godiva for fiver and Ayrton Senna for tenner. Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. (source Cassells). 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). 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. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the fiver = five pounds (5), from the mid-1800s. sprat/spratt = sixpence (6d). 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. 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). In the same way a ton is also slang for 100 runs in cricket, or a speed of 100 miles per hour. If you have any problems, please let us know. 5. This symbol represents a small monkey showed in a kind-of naturalistic way. I can find no other references to meanings or origins for the money term 'biscuit'. chump change = a relatively insiginificant amount of money - a recent expression (seemingly 2000s) originating in the US and now apparently entering UK usage. 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. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? Originated in the USA in the 1920s, logically an association with the literal meaning - full or large. Machair - fertile low-lying grassy plain in the Outer Hebrides. 10. ", "Wheres the originality? These were called fob watches, and its from this expression that we get Kettle and Hob for watch. A slang word used in Britain and chiefly London from around 1750-1850. I just threw in an extra slang term for free. gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). Bronze (term to describe the one and two pound coins) 4. 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. Covidiot - someone who ignores health advice about COVID-19 similar to Morona. Cheeky Monkey. Given that backslang is based on phonetic word sound not spelling, the conversion of shilling to generalize is just about understandable, if somewhat tenuous, and in the absence of other explanation is the only known possible derivation of this odd slang. Jimmy - "Jimmy Riddle" = piddle = urinate. When pocket watches first became fashionable, they were held against the body by use of a small chain. Scrummy - (upper class) slang for delicious, scrumptious. 'More fun than a barrel of monkeys' means to have a lot of fun. Brilliant 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 Z-Cars - 1960s and 70s TV police drama set in Liverpool. As the label suggests, speakers of MLE come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and live in diverse neighbourhoods. 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. Fixin' to. More fun British slang phrases. Some die out because nobody uses . Acting the maggot. YBAs - Young British Artists - art movement of the 1980s including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker and Tracey Emin. doubloons = money. flag = five pound note (5), UK, notably in Manchester (ack Michael Hicks); also a USA one dollar bill; also used as a slang term for a money note in Australia although Cassells is vague about the value (if you know please contact us). From the 19th century sus law (from "suspected person" which gave police the right to stop and search. Normally refers to notes and a reasonable amount of spending money. Berties - term for Man City fans used by Man Utd supporters; the reverse is "rags". Traditional IPA: mki Posh - port out, starboard home; elegant, stylish, or upper class. Bash A "bash" is a party. Brewer also references the Laird of Sillabawby, a 16th century mintmaster, as a possible origin. Proper - done well; cf. 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. Probably related to 'motsa' below. From the 1800s, by association with the small fish. What it actually means: As its name suggests, this monkey is covering its eyes to see no evil, as as in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil proverb. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. Bags (to make a bags of something) Bang on. Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". A grand is used when talking in thousands. 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. medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers = 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. Hear, understand the origins and meanings of new slang and use it immediately! Which Teeth Are Normally Considered Anodontia. In the 18th century 'bobstick' was a shillings-worth of gin. In the US a nickel is more commonly a five cent coin. Dope - Awesome. English slang referenced by Brewer in 1870, origin unclear, possibly related to the Virgin Mary, and a style of church windows featuring her image. Minging - foul-smelling, unpleasant, very bad. This expression has negative connotations, so filthy lucre would refer to money that has been illegally acquired. two and a kick = half a crown (2/6), from the early 1700s, based on the basic (not cockney) rhyming with 'two and six'. 1. Learn more. In addition, Britain-specific words are included. In finance, a Monkey is British slang for 500 pounds sterling. Shop - report someone to the police or higher authorities. British Dictionary definitions for monkey monkey / ( mk) / noun 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 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. 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. knicker = distortion of 'nicker', meaning 1. It was quite an accepted name for lemonade". Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. A monkey means 500 Bangers and mash - cash Bread and honey - money Pavarotti - he was a famous tenor so a Pavarotti is a tenner (10) If you want to read more about cockney rhyming slang and money, read this BBC article. Pinch Another word for stealing, or purchasing something at a heavily discounted rate. "He thought he could make a monkey out of his friend but he was not prepared for what was coming. Yonks - in a long time as in "I haven't seen you in yonks.". Mispronunciation of sovs, short for sovereigns. Closie - Dundee parlance for a stairwell in a block of flats. Kecks (kex) - trousers or sometimes underpants - mainly used in northern England and Northern Ireland. Then, build your vocabulary even more by mastering some Irish . Less common variations on the same theme: wamba, wanga, or womba. 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. commodore = fifteen pounds (15). 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. Moola: Money in general (origin unknown) Also spelled moolah. We assure you, it's no monkey business! It is conceivable that the use also later transferred for a while to a soverign and a pound, being similar currency units, although I'm not aware of specific evidence of this. Bloke What does Bloke mean in British slang. Initially London slang, especially for a fifty pound note. A dosser is the noun. bees (bees and honey) = money. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. . Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony. Arvo - Afternoon ( S'Arvo - this afternoon!) cabbage = money in banknotes, 'folding' money - orginally US slang according to Cassells, from the 1900s, also used in the UK, logically arising because of the leaf allusion, and green was a common colour of dollar notes and pound notes (thanks R Maguire, who remembers the slang from Glasgow in 1970s). Cockney Rhyming Slang. It means to make a profit. This was also a defensive or retaliatory remark aimed at those of middle, higher or profesional classes who might look down on certain 'working class' entrepreneurs or traders. The rules about capital letters and currency are the following: you dont use a capital letter to spell out the whole name, therefore: pounds, euros and dollars. If youre in London you may overhear many other terms for money and many of these will come from cockney rhyming slang. Origin: US/UK. sky/sky diver = five pounds (5), 20th century cockney rhyming slang. The ten pound meaning of cock and hen is 20th century rhyming slang. 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. 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. Yorkshire Pudding - side dish with roast beef made with eggs, flour, salt, milk and beef dripping cooked in the oven. Smoke - the Smoke, the nickname for London. You can find out more about that in this, Pavarotti he was a famous tenor so a Pavarotti is a tenner (10), If you want to read more about cockney rhyming slang and money, read this. A clod is a lump of earth. Similarly words connected with sex and stupidity frequently have slang equivalents. 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. dibs/dibbs = money. (modifier) nautical. Backslang essentially entails reversing the sound of the word, not the strict spelling, as you can see from the yennep example. 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. beehive = five pounds (5). Strop - displeased, angry, as in "having a strop". We use the symbol G when we want to write thousands in shorthand. Roadman - someone well-acquainted with their local area. thick'un/thick one = a crown (5/-) or a sovereign, from the mid 1800s. You can use it to refer to a person or an object. bottle = two pounds, or earlier tuppence (2d), from the cockney rhyming slang: bottle of spruce = deuce (= two pounds or tuppence). 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. caser/case = five shillings (5/-), a crown coin. Now in a minute - on your way, but not immediately (Welsh). Shade - to show disapproval or contempt (US origin). cows = a pound, 1930s, from the rhyming slang 'cow's licker' = nicker (nicker means a pound). All rights reserved. Not actually slang, more an informal and extremely common pre-decimalisation term used as readily as 'two-and-six' in referring to that amount. Prior to 1971 bob was one of the most commonly used English slang words. These terms have something for everyone, from the silly to the sincere, and even some insults. 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