Example: "I only paid a monkey for it." 6. We assure you, it's no monkey business! These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. Dog's bollocks - a person or thing that is the best of its kind. Brilliant readies = money, usually banknotes. All our resources are free and mapped to the Australian Curriculum. Not pluralised for a number of pounds, eg., 'It cost me twenty nicker..' From the early 1900s, London slang, precise origin unknown. Tosser - derogatory term for someone you dislike. A nicker bit is a one pound coin, and London cockney rhyming slang uses the expression 'nicker bits' to describe a case of diarrhoea. Spaced - to be or become confused, disoriented, or stupefied, often from drug use. Answer (1 of 27): There is commonly held belief that the term was brought back by returning British soldiers in the days of the Raj, alluding to the idea that the 25 rupee note bore a picture of a pony (the same theory attempts to explain 500 being a 'monkey').The problem with this idea is this:. He was referring to the fact that the groat's production ceased from 1662 and then restarted in 1835, (or 1836 according to other sources). ", "Why do you want to make a monkey out of me? 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). (Thanks Simon Ladd, June 2007). Bevvy. sir isaac = one pound (1) - used in Hampshire (Southern England) apparently originating from the time when the one pound note carried a picture of Sir Isaac Newton. 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. From the 1800s, by association with the small fish. We want to make sure youre leaving a professional image of yourself. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. 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. If someone has the cheddar, it means they must be making bank. The word flag has been used since the 1500s as a slang expression for various types of money, and more recently for certain notes. Logically, it follows that you'd have 240 pence to a pound. Salty - Bitter or angry. Silver threepences were last issued for circulation in the United Kingdom in 1941 but the final pieces to be sent overseas for colonial use were dated 1944. long-tailed 'un/long-tailed finnip = high value note, from the 1800s and in use to the late 1900s. They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. commodore = fifteen pounds (15). 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. Probably related to 'motsa' below. shit faced. Brewer also references the Laird of Sillabawby, a 16th century mintmaster, as a possible origin. nicker = a pound (1). Bloody hell: To express anger, shock or surprise. 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. Century (one hundred pounds sterling). Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). Monkey - This originated from the British slang for 500 pounds of sterling. Fuzz - old, derogatory slang for the police. Originated in the USA in the 1920s, logically an association with the literal meaning - full or large. Contributors: Gareth Thomas, Beydaan Dihoud, Joji Imamiya. It was inspired by a monkey on the 500 Rupee banknote. A person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead. Tarmac - material used for surfacing roads or other outdoor areas, named after its Scottish inventor John Louden McAdam. A further suggestion (ack S Kopec) refers to sixpence being connected with pricing in the leather trade. No other language in the world has been as bastardised as this one! 2. the fur of certain long-haired monkeys. Or head over to our facebook page https://facebook.com/theslangpodcast for updates and more slang! Folding, folding stuff and folding money are all popular slang in London. moola = money. Suss out - find, discover, understand. The most commonly used slang term for a pound is a, This expression has negative connotations, so, If youre in London you may overhear many other terms for money and many of these will come from, Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. Kecks (kex) - trousers or sometimes underpants - mainly used in northern England and Northern Ireland. 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. Meaning. Whey Aye Man - yes. Perhaps based on jack meaning a small thing, although there are many possible different sources. 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). 1. Not normally pluralised, still expressed as 'squid', not squids, e.g., 'Fifty squid'. fiver = five pounds (5), from the mid-1800s. Wor lass - my girlfriend. Watering hole - this is one of the many British slang words for a pub. Boozer - pub, or a person who drinks a lot. The symbol for a penny was a "d" (for the Latin denarius), and for a shilling, it was "s" (the Latin solidus). 3. tanner = sixpence (6d). Origin is not known for sure. Now that we've covered the official British money terms and even some outdated ones it's time to see how people in the UK talk about money on a day-to-day basis. However, when it comes down to money, it is probably worth getting your head around the lingo, to prevent you handing over, or receiving, a wildly incorrect amount because you got the wrong word. monkey. 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. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). shrapnel = loose change, especially a heavy and inconvenient pocketful, as when someone repays a small loan in lots of coins. Fixin' to. 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). Dosh (general term for money). Cheers - very common alternative for "thank you" or drinking toast. sovs = pounds. Referring to 500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side. Now in a minute - on your way, but not immediately (Welsh). Normally refers to notes and a reasonable amount of spending money. wad = money. Britain is known for its drinking culture, so 'chunder' is a word you'll hear frequently the day after a night out. 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. Also find guides to Britain's transport system including roads, trains, buses and airports. Botch - mess up, ruin; as in "the plumber botched the repair". 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'). carpet = three pounds (3) or three hundred pounds (300), or sometimes thirty pounds (30). . From the 1960s, becoming widely used in the 1970s. nicker = a pound (1). Shank - to stab someone with a knife or bladed instrument (slang). A 'flo' is the slang shortening, meaning two shillings. Manc - Mancunian, a native of Manchester. Used to describe a stupid, nasty or useless person. In parts of the US 'bob' was used for the US dollar coin. Other British expressions to do with money To be quids in We use this expression a lot. TimesMojo is a social question-and-answer website where you can get all the answers to your questions. 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. From the 1920s, and popular slang in fast-moving business, trading, the underworld, etc., until the 1970s when it was largely replaced by 'K'. Cockle is Cockney slang for 10 pounds (tenner). Quid - pound (informal; British currency). sprat/spratt = sixpence (6d). A Dictionary of American Idioms monkey business [monkey business] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Texas slang words and phrases. Jessie - originally Scottish slang for weak or effeminate man. 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. It is therefore only a matter of time before modern 'silver' copper-based coins have to be made of less valuable metals, upon which provided they remain silver coloured I expect only the scrap metal dealers will notice the difference. Crusty - usually young homeless or vagrant person stereotypically dreadlocked; can also mean angry or irritated. beer tokens = money. Historically bob was slang for a British shilling (Twelve old pence, pre-decimalisation - and twenty shillings to a pound). 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? Posh - port out, starboard home; elegant, stylish, or upper class. Earful - a prolonged and angry reprimand. Doolally - temporarily deranged or feeble-minded. 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 first things you gotta learn are that five pounds is a fiver, and ten pounds is a tenner. thick'un/thick one = a crown (5/-) or a sovereign, from the mid 1800s. Sadly the word is almost obsolete now, although the groat coin is kept alive in Maundy Money. 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. Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. Dogging - slang for engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place or watching others doing so. The most widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include pony which is 25, a ton is 100 and a monkey, which equals 500. The solidus and denarius . Prior to 1971 bob was one of the most commonly used English slang words. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2 cents coin. Shade - to show disapproval or contempt (US origin). YBAs - Young British Artists - art movement of the 1980s including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker and Tracey Emin. 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. But what about slang words that are used around the world? 1. Curate's egg - something that is partly good and partly bad. Porkies - lies, from the Cockney rhyming slang "pork pies" = lies. Precise origin unknown. The modern form of farthing was first recorded in English around 1280 when it altered from ferthing to farthing. 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). Yennep is backslang. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers = two pounds (2), an irresistible pun. 23. "Mixing drinks last night was a terrible idea. 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. The word cows means a single pound since technically the word is cow's, from cow's licker. Lass - young woman (Scotland and northern England). It means to vomit from excessive drinking. 9. These would be considered vulgar so use with caution: bladdered. 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. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a recent source of new expressions as is popular music such as grime. 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. 'Monkey's uncle' is used as an expression of surprise. Banjaxed. Joey - 3d or threepence. sky/sky diver = five pounds (5), 20th century cockney rhyming slang. I just threw in an extra slang term for free. Bairn - child (Scottish, northern English). It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. Yank someone's chain - goad, provoke, irritate. 'More fun than a barrel of monkeys' means to have a lot of fun. A clod is a lump of earth. This is short for the word "beverages," usually alcoholic, most often beer. Check your spam folder if you don't get an email immediately! 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. An 'oxford' was cockney rhyming slang for five shillings (5/-) based on the dollar rhyming slang: 'oxford scholar'. 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. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. 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 20 is sometimes referred to as a score, although strictly this is not a slang term for money, as score is a normal word for twenty. Alcohol and words relating to pubs and being drunk feature prominently in British slang. jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a . Jimmy - "Jimmy Riddle" = piddle = urinate. More fun British slang phrases. Earlier 'long-tailed finnip' meant more specifically ten pounds, since a finnip was five pounds (see fin/finny/finnip) from Yiddish funf meaning five. "Did you just whistle at that old lady? Shop - report someone to the police or higher authorities. 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. 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). (Thanks M Johnson, Jan 2008). Use: He's bladdered come 'ed we best swerve the next bar. Example: Are you coming to my birthday bash next Saturday? Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. Popularity of this slang word was increased by comedian Harry Enfield. The silver threepence was effectively replaced with introduction of the brass-nickel threepenny bit in 1937, through to 1945, which was the last minting of the silver threepence coin. Her Majesty's Pleasure - in jail; see porridge, inside. Sic/Sick - Next Level Cool. Slang words or phrases develop over time. The use of the word 'half' alone to mean 50p seemingly never gaught on, unless anyone can confirm otherwise. 'To monkey around' means to behave in a silly or careless way. 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. Brass originated as slang for money by association to the colour of gold coins, and the value of brass as a scrap metal. A good or bad vibe. nicker a pound (1). Monkeys are primates. More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. Changes in coin composition necessarily have to stay ahead of economic attractions offered by the scrap metal trade. You are listening to our fourth and final episode specialising on slang and money! How much money does a monkey cost? Note the use of "man" in the singular to mean "men" or even "people". doubloons = money. dosh = slang for a reasonable amount of spending money, for instance enough for a 'night-out'. The older nuggets meaning of money obviously alludes to gold nuggets and appeared first in the 1800s. Please be careful using any of these terms as many are considered either sexist or offensive or both. No plural version; it was 'thirty bob' not 'thirty bobs'. When you monkey around, or monkey with something, you fool about or fiddle with it. (Thanks M Ty-Wharton). This contributed to the development of some 'lingua franca' expressions, i.e., mixtures of Italian, Greek, Arabic, Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect), Spanish and English which developed to enable understanding between people of different nationalities, rather like a pidgin or hybrid English. Bees knees - a highly admired person or thing. Backslang also contributes several slang money words. 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. The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. She is such a cheeky monkey. Definition of monkey_1 noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It's also been used as a replacement term for money. You cheeky monkey." Chin-wag: A chat or brief conversation. Broke: we all know this one, when you're "skint" (British slang) or poor, you can consider yourself broke. tom/tom mix = six pounds (6), 20th century cockney rhyming slang, (Tom Mix = six). Do A "do" is also a slang word for "party" in British English. 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. 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