Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". London slang from the 1980s, derived simply from the allusion to a thick wad of banknotes. We've shown you the 100 Australian Slang Words & Phrases. Cock up: Make a mess of something. live, learn and work. BOODLE. These terms have something for everyone, from the silly to the sincere, and even some insults. The expression is interpreted into Australian and New Zealand money slang as deener, again meaning shilling. Earlier 'long-tailed finnip' meant more specifically ten pounds, since a finnip was five pounds (see fin/finny/finnip) from Yiddish funf meaning five. It's the best sound in the world to somethe cash register completing a sale. I suspect different reasons for the British coins, but have yet to find them. Whatever, kibosh meant a shilling and sixpence (1/6). Folding, folding stuff and folding money are all popular slang in London. The term ' nicker ' is probably connected to the use of nickel in the minting of coins. To sit around doing little, to be idle. simon = sixpence (6d). It's a site that collects all the most frequently asked questions and answers, so you don't have to spend hours on searching anywhere else. 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). Bender: derogatory term for homosexual, like "poof." (Note: You probably shouldn't use it or you'll get slapped, but it's worthy of note for giving Futurama a very different meaning.) 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. From cockney rhyming slang clodhopper (= copper). 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). See an A-Z listing of British slang, colloquialisms and dialect words and phrases. Dog's bollocks - a person or thing that is the best of its kind. The spelling cole was also used. Hamsterkaufing - stockpiling or hoarding before a Covid-19 lockdown. A `pony is 25 pounds, a `monkey 500. In this post we share the official and unofficial ways Brits refer to money. 2022 - 2023 Times Mojo - All Rights Reserved 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. Dough . monkey. For ex: You mean he paid 300G for a house in the suburbs! Copper (term to describe the one and two pence coins). 1. A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover, victim. Jessie - originally Scottish slang for weak or effeminate man. bob = shilling (1/-), although in recent times now means a pound or a dollar in certain regions. bees (bees and honey) = money. pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers = two pounds (2), an irresistible pun. EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie. Cockwomble - foolish or obnoxious person. Commonly used in speech as 'some silver' or 'any silver', for example: "Have you got any silver for the car-park?" Crusty - usually young homeless or vagrant person stereotypically dreadlocked; can also mean angry or irritated. Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. tom/tom mix = six pounds (6), 20th century cockney rhyming slang, (Tom Mix = six). Whey Aye Man - yes. It's also been used as a replacement term for money. 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. These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. (Thanks to R Maguire for raising this one.). For ex: Ill be back in a minute, Im just off to spend a penny! ned = a guinea. Bill - the "check" in British English after eating in a restaurant. "No more monkeying around! Chuffed: Pleased, delighted. 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. The large Australian 'wonga' pigeon is almost certainly unrelated yennep/yenep/yennap/yennop = a penny (1d particularly, although also means a decimal penny, 1p). nicker = a pound (1). An 'oxford' was cockney rhyming slang for five shillings (5/-) based on the dollar rhyming slang: 'oxford scholar'. Copyright Learn English Network - All Rights Reserved. cock and hen = ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). I'm not being funny - softening preface to a statement that could possibly be taken as offensive or malicious. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. Posh - port out, starboard home; elegant, stylish, or upper class. Umpteen - large quantity, numerous times, huge amount or a load of something. Darwin (ten pound note, which features the face of Charles Darwin). It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. A penny-pincher is someone who is unwilling to spend money. 'K' has now mainly replaced 'G' in common speech and especially among middle and professional classes. Yennep is backslang. 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'. Doghouse - as in the phrase "to be in the doghouse" - to be in trouble or when someone is upset or angry with you for whatever reason. For example, 'You need to wear a coat today, it's brass monkeys outside.' 11. This has confusing and convoluted origins, from as early as the late 1800s: It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence, based on the following: that 'carpet bag' was cockney rhyming slang for a 'drag', which was generally used to describe a three month sentence; also that in the prison workshops it supposedly took ninety days to produce a certain regulation-size piece of carpet; and there is also a belief that prisoners used to be awarded the luxury of a piece of carpet for their cell after three year's incarceration. Jelly - fruit-flavored gelatin dessert or slang for valium as in "jellies". Bung - as a verb meaning to throw as a noun, or a bribe. 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. 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. Add a little spark to your vocabulary with Scottish slang. guinea = guinea is not a slang term, it's a proper and historical word for an amount of money equating to twenty-one shillings, or in modern sterling one pound five pence. 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. Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Texas slang. (Thanks R Bambridge). (Thanks Simon Ladd, Jun 2007), coppers = pre-decimal farthings, ha'pennies and pennies, and to a lesser extent 1p and 2p coins since decimalisation, and also meaning a very small amount of money. 4. I am grateful also (thanks Paul, Apr 2007) for a further suggestion that 'biscuit' means 1,000 in the casino trade, which apparently is due to the larger size of the 1,000 chip. Monkey - This originated from the British slang for 500 pounds of sterling. Alternatively beer vouchers, which commonly meant pound notes, prior to their withdrawal. Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry). Monkeys are primates. In the 18th century 'bobstick' was a shillings-worth of gin. 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). There were twenty Stivers to the East India Co florin or gulden, which was then equal to just over an English old penny (1d). Also find guides to Britain's transport system including roads, trains, buses and airports. A pony equals 25. ", "You know John is not telling the truth about the price of his car. Example in written form: In my new job Ill be earning 75K a year. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary. With dictionary look up. 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. strike = a sovereign (early 1700s) and later, a pound, based on the coin minting process which is called 'striking' a coin, so called because of the stamping process used in making coins. beehive = five pounds (5). Space cadet - flaky, lightheaded, or forgetful person. 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! A rare example of money slang from more recent times, even though it draws from the pre-decimal slang, since the term refers to ten shillings (equivalent to 50p) and alludes to the angular shape of the old theepenny bit. From the Hebrew word and Israeli monetary unit 'shekel' derived in Hebrew from the silver coin 'sekel' in turn from the word for weight 'sakal'. This is what I call brass monkey weather. Brewer also references the Laird of Sillabawby, a 16th century mintmaster, as a possible origin. boodle = money. Yank someone's chain - goad, provoke, irritate. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008). Variations on the same theme are moolah, mola, mulla. 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. Modern London slang. Now that youve got the slang down, youll want to work on your accent. Tea: means gossip, a common phrase used in the US is: "Spill the tea". It is about money in general terms. For example 'Lend us twenty sovs..' Sov is not generally used in the singular for one pound. Bags (to make a bags of something) Bang on. Back in the 1960s, it was illegal to be gay in the UK and so gay men began to use a kind of code language or slang that was a mix of Italian, Romany and rhyming slang. Also shortened to beesum (from bees and, bees 'n', to beesum). Suss out - find, discover, understand. The coin was not formally demonetised until 31 August 1971 at the time of decimalisation. I am just trying to help!". Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. 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. #1. 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. tanner = sixpence (6d). Jag - alternative word for vaccine jab in Scotland. Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. More rarely from the early-mid 1900s fiver could also mean five thousand pounds, but arguably it remains today the most widely used slang term for five pounds. Bad dose. foont/funt = a pound (1), from the mid-1900s, derived from the German word 'pfund' for the UK pound. marygold/marigold = a million pounds (1,000,000). Short for sovereigns - very old gold and the original one pound coins. - cheers, good health (Welsh). From the 1800s, by association with the small fish. Yonks - in a long time as in "I haven't seen you in yonks.". Brass originated as slang for money by association to the colour of gold coins, and the value of brass as a scrap metal. Mug off - disrespect, make someone appear stupid. 11. Were mad about English. Shiv - contemporary slang for knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon (often homemade). Or head over to our facebook page https://facebook.com/theslangpodcast for updates and more slang! Below is the UK transcription for 'monkey': Modern IPA: mkj. The 1973 advert's artistic director was Ridley Scott. The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. Possibilities include a connection with the church or bell-ringing since 'bob' meant a set of changes rung on the bells. Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. yennaps/yennups = money. This symbol represents a small monkey showed in a kind-of naturalistic way. Gobsmacked - slang for totally surprised, shocked. a monkey bridge. As in "We threw everything except the kitchen sink at the problem.". thick'un/thick one = a crown (5/-) or a sovereign, from the mid 1800s. Twat - vulgar slang for "vagina." Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. monkey meaning: 1. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. 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. Historically bob was slang for a British shilling (Twelve old pence, pre-decimalisation - and twenty shillings to a pound). In finance, a Monkey is British slang for 500 pounds sterling. A slang word used in Britain and chiefly London from around 1750-1850. Brown bread - dead from Cockney rhyming slang. jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. 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. "He started an exercise routine and his wife copied it. One pound is subdivided into 100 pence, the singular of which is one penny. Others have suggested that an Indian twenty-five rupee banknote featured a pony. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. Toodle pip - archaic, posh form for "goodbye". Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies. 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. The answer can be traced back to 19th Century India, where the 500 rupee note had a picture of an ape on it and was informally known as a "monkey". And 59 per cent don't understand what . Silver threepenny coins were first introduced in the mid-1500s but were not popular nor minted in any serious quantity for general circulation until around 1760, because people preferred the fourpenny groat. Less common variations on the same theme: wamba, wanga, or womba. Cream-crackered - = knackered, thus extremely tired, exhausted. Precise origin unknown. 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. Various other spellings, e.g., spondulacks, spondulics. plum = One hundred thousand pounds (100,000). Black stuff. Usage of bob for shilling dates back to the late 1700s. 7. Bum crack - the exposed top part of the buttocks. 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. Ye - archaic spelling for "the" - the definite article or archaic for "your" - possessive pronoun. 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. 'Bob a nob', in the early 1800s meant 'a shilling a head', when estimating costs of meals, etc. sprat/spratt = sixpence (6d). "Mixing drinks last night was a terrible idea. The term monkey came from soldiers returning from India, where the 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it. Veg-out - take it easy, relax, do nothing for a while. As kids growing up we always asked for a glass of spruce. It is therefore unlikely that anyone today will use or recall this particular slang, but if the question arises you'll know the answer. Probably related to 'motsa' below. Queen mum- Cockney rhyming slang for bum. Skelp - a slap or smack (Dundee, Scotland). Ned was seemingly not pluralised when referring to a number of guineas, eg., 'It'll cost you ten ned..' A half-ned was half a guinea. 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 Nick Ratnieks suggests the tanner was named after a Master of the Mint of that name. I can find no other references to meanings or origins for the money term 'biscuit'. The actual setting was in fact Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset. or What tip shall we leave?" You'll notice a lot of abbreviations here, which is all part of the fun of learning how to speak Texas slang. shilling = a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). Grand - a thousand (colloquial) usually referring to money. The symbol for a penny was a "d" (for the Latin denarius), and for a shilling, it was "s" (the Latin solidus). Machair - fertile low-lying grassy plain in the Outer Hebrides. About to do. Shank - to stab someone with a knife or bladed instrument (slang). 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. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, Abdabs - terror, fright as in "the screaming abdabs.". Half a dollar - half a crown. "I never thought my friend would get married again but I just received her wedding invitation. Barmy. A dosser is the noun. Wacky - funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. 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. monkey = five hundred pounds (500). 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. Magic Mushrooms - psychedelic mushrooms, Psilocybe semilanceata or the liberty cap, noted for the "nipple" at the top of the head. Bollocks - testicles or something that is nonsense. gen net/net gen = ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen'). ton = commonly one hundred pounds (100). 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! Corker - something or someone outstanding. There has been speculation among etymologists that 'simon' meaning sixpence derives from an old play on words which represented biblical text that St Peter "lodged with Simon a tanner.." as a description of a banking transaction, although Partridge's esteemed dictionary refutes this, at the same time conceding that the slang 'tanner' for sixpence might have developed or been reinforced by the old joke. No plural version; it was 'thirty bob' not 'thirty bobs'. Yack - to vomit, usually because of intoxication. They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. 9. It was quite an accepted name for lemonade". Totty - (uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively (sexist and offensive). 3. Odds and sods - this and that; bits and pieces. Goblin mode - describes "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour. Yorkshire Pudding - side dish with roast beef made with eggs, flour, salt, milk and beef dripping cooked in the oven. Used to describe a stupid, nasty or useless person. chip = a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. McGarrett = fifty pounds (50). Lass - young woman (Scotland and northern England). 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. (m ki) n., pl. Logically, it follows that you'd have 240 pence to a pound. Brassed off - annoyed and unhappy feeling. 4. the head of a pile-driver ( monkey engine) or of some similar mechanical device. nugget/nuggets = a pound coin (1) or money generally. We also use the term smackers instead of pounds but rarely in the singular form. I am also informed (ack Sue Batch, Nov 2007) that spruce also referred to lemonade, which is perhaps another source of the bottle rhyming slang: " around Northants, particularly the Rushden area, Spruce is in fact lemonade it has died out nowadays - I was brought up in the 50s and 60s and it was an everyday word around my area back then. In addition, Britain-specific words are included. The word cows means a single pound since technically the word is cow's, from cow's licker. Faff - spend time in ineffectual activity. Hear, understand the origins and meanings of new slang and use it immediately! Dont believe us?Watch this! Barmy: crazy, insane; always derogatory. Shade - to show disapproval or contempt (US origin). Shop - report someone to the police or higher authorities. 1. I've spent all morning chundering it back out.". Less well used slang terms include Lady Godiva for fiver and Ayrton Senna for tenner. Coppers was very popular slang pre-decimalisation (1971), and is still used in referring to modern pennies and two-penny coins, typically describing the copper (coloured) coins in one's pocket or change, or piggy bank. 6. shekels/sheckles = money. Paddy - temper fit, an Irishman (derogatory). beer tokens = money. 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. Fag - cigarette, "ciggie", hence fag end (stub) and fag packet. More recently (1900s) the slang 'a quarter' has transfered to twenty-five pounds. Brutal. Skive - slang for slack off, avoid work (noun; skiver). noun. Need your document in perfect English? 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. cows = a pound, 1930s, from the rhyming slang 'cow's licker' = nicker (nicker means a pound). Tom Mix initially meant the number six (and also fix, as in difficult situation or state of affairs), and extended later in the 1900s to mean six pounds. English slang referenced by Brewer in 1870, origin unclear, possibly related to the Virgin Mary, and a style of church windows featuring her image. But what about slang words that are used around the world? 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. How many medals has Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? 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. 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. "He thought he could make a monkey out of his friend but he was not prepared for what was coming. 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