Wank - masturbate, a wanker is an objectionable person. Berk - idiot from Cockney rhyming slang Berkeley Hunt = c*nt. bread (bread and honey) = money. NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training. 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. As referenced by Brewer in 1870. 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.". For daily English language lessons and tips, like our Learn English Facebook page, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. It cannot cost a million dollars. Add a little spark to your vocabulary with Scottish slang. 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. Piece - piece of bread, sandwich (Glaswegian). fiver = five pounds (5), from the mid-1800s. 9. Kecks (kex) - trousers or sometimes underpants - mainly used in northern England and Northern Ireland. Naff - in bad taste, originally gay slang for heterosexual. Doddle - something that is easy to accomplish. beehive = five pounds (5). 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. Equivalent to 12p in decimal money. Whinge - to complain, thus a whinger is a person who complains, whines. Fixin' to. Meaning. It is about money in general terms. Slang British Money Terms. 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. Jessie - originally Scottish slang for weak or effeminate man. Check your spam folder if you don't get an email immediately! sovs = pounds. When pocket watches first became fashionable, they were held against the body by use of a small chain. Barmy. Bent - dishonest or derogatory for homosexual. "That's a barmy idea". 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. 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. Monkey business means doing something mischievous. Anorak - either hooded rainwear or slang for a nerd. Definition: Drunk beyond comprehension. Exactly when the words became slurs is unknown, but offensive comparisons of black people to apes date back hundreds of centuries. - cheers, good health (Welsh). How do you say monkey in British? Jag - alternative word for vaccine jab in Scotland. `Ton in this sense may come from the name for a measurement of 100 cubic feet. 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. From Old High German 'skilling'. Moola - Also spelled moolah, the origin of this word is unknown. brass = money. The word can actually be traced back to Roman times, when a 'Denarius Grossus' was a 'thick penny' (equivalent). For example, 'You need to wear a coat today, it's brass monkeys outside.' 11. 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. It would seem that the 'biscuit' slang term is still evolving and might mean different things (100 or 1,000) to different people. (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) A piece of faeces. He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a . Precise origin of the word ned is uncertain although it is connected indirectly (by Chambers and Cassells for example) with a straightforward rhyming slang for the word head (conventional ockney rhyming slang is slightly more complex than this), which seems plausible given that the monarch's head appeared on guinea coins. Trolley dolly - air stewardess (informal). Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Slang words or phrases develop over time. Cheeky Monkey. Ape and monkey are considered offensive terms when they're used to describe a person of color. Britain-Visitor.com also offers information on British culture including British cuisine, history and the arts. 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. Tea: means gossip, a common phrase used in the US is: "Spill the tea". Cockle is Cockney slang for 10 pounds (tenner). More fun British slang phrases. (Thanks Simon Ladd, June 2007). Brewer's 1870 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable states that 'bob' could be derived from 'Bawbee', which was 16-19th century slang for a half-penny, in turn derived from: French 'bas billon', meaning debased copper money (coins were commonly cut to make change). Pletty (plettie) - Dundonian slang for an open-air communal landing in a block of tenement flats. 3. Arvo - Afternoon ( S'Arvo - this afternoon!) Skelp - a slap or smack (Dundee, Scotland). 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. ", "You know John is not telling the truth about the price of his car. dibs/dibbs = money. For Terry's detailed and fascinating explanation of the history of K see the ' K' entry on the cliches and words origins page. Scunnered - tired or exhausted (Glaswegian). 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. The slow way to perfection is years of study and practice; the fast way is to put it into the hands of our professional editors! 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). For the record, the other detectives were called Chin Ho Kelly (the old guy) and Kono Kalakaua (the big guy), played by Kam Fong and Zulu, both of which seem far better character names, but that's really the way it was. Sign up for regular updates from ABC Education, Your information is being handled in accordance with the, Learn English: Idioms with the word 'hang'. Now sadly gone in the UK for this particular meaning, although lots of other meanings remain (for example the verb or noun meaning of pooh, a haircut, and the verb meaning of cheat). Watering hole - this is one of the many British slang words for a pub. Britain Tourist Info. Bugger off . The first things you gotta learn are that five pounds is a fiver, and ten pounds is a tenner. Typically in a derisive way, such as 'I wouldn't give you a brass maggie for that' for something overpriced but low value. Loaded - having a great deal of money; rich or alternatively under the influence of alcohol or drugs. . Bread meaning money is also linked with with the expression 'earning a crust', which alludes to having enough money to pay for one's daily bread. From the 1900s in England and so called because the coin was similar in appearance and size to the American dollar coin, and at one time similar in value too. Origin unknown, although I received an interesting suggestion (thanks Giles Simmons, March 2007) of a possible connection with Jack Horner's plum in the nursery rhyme. It was a monkey see, monkey do sort of situation. Hello MaryParker, Thank you for your comments. Meaning. Danno (Detective Danny Williams, played by James MacArthur) was McGarrett's unfailingly loyal junior partner. Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. Paddy - temper fit, an Irishman (derogatory). The expression is interpreted into Australian and New Zealand money slang as deener, again meaning shilling. Meaning - Monkey Emoji net gen = ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net. "He thought he could make a monkey out of his friend but he was not prepared for what was coming. Flog a dead horse - waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be changed. Originally Answered: Why is a persons home a drum in cockney rhyming slang? Modern London slang. Bagsy - it's mine; succeed in securing (something) for oneself. Bevvy. 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. 10. Monkey Emoji is a very simple emoji usually used for its literal meaning when talking about wild and funny animals such as monkeys. Not actually slang, more an informal and extremely common pre-decimalisation term used as readily as 'two-and-six' in referring to that amount. 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. From cockney rhyming slang clodhopper (= copper). 'Naff' was one of these words that actually meant someone was heterosexual. Lost the plot: If you've heard this, simply put, it means crazy. pony = twenty-five pounds (25). Bash A "bash" is a party. Definition of monkey_1 noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Gucci - Good or going well. 'Half a job' was half a guinea. #1. Then you gotta know the key money values: 20 is a Score, 25 is a Pony, 100 is a Ton, 500 . Seems to have surfaced first as caser in Australia in the mid-1800s from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) kesef meaning silver, where (in Australia) it also meant a five year prison term. While this London centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th century India. Nobble - disable, try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods, steal. 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). In parts of the US 'bob' was used for the US dollar coin. Pigs in Blankets - small sausages wrapped in bacon. Twat - vulgar slang for "vagina." Dodgy - suspicious, of questionable quality (slang). Cockney rhyming slang, from 'poppy red' = bread, in turn from 'bread and honey' = money. 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. spondulicks/spondoolicks = money. Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. Before decimalisation, British money was made up of pounds, shillings, and pence as follows: 1 pound = 20 shillings. Used to describe a stupid, nasty or useless person. Heres how to spot the absolute worst people on Instagram, according to science, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. All our resources are free and mapped to the Australian Curriculum. gelt/gelter = money, from the late 1600s, with roots in foreign words for gold, notably German and Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) gelt, and Dutch and South African geld. dough = money. Cockwomble - foolish or obnoxious person. Totty - (uncountable) sexually attractive women considered collectively (sexist and offensive). ned = a guinea. poppy = money. 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. (source Cassells). Then, build your vocabulary even more by mastering some Irish . A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover, victim. Equivalent to 10p - a tenth of a pound. In the same way a ton is also slang for 100 runs in cricket, or a speed of 100 miles per hour. In their natural habitat, monkeys are incredibly compassionate and carrying. Spondoolicks is possibly from Greek, according to Cassells - from spondulox, a type of shell used for early money. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2 cents coin. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. I suspect different reasons for the British coins, but have yet to find them. Usually meaning a large amount of spending money held by a person when out enjoying themselves. Plural uses singular form. 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:. The 'tanner' slang was later reinforced (Ack L Bamford) via jocular reference to a biblical extract about St Peter lodging with Simon, a tanner (of hides). See yennep. Brewer says that the 'modern groat was introduced in 1835, and withdrawn in 1887'. Might could. Probably London slang from the early 1800s. Texas slang. We say a heap of dosh or heaps of dosh. Minging - foul-smelling, unpleasant, very bad. Veg-out - take it easy, relax, do nothing for a while. Changes in coin composition necessarily have to stay ahead of economic attractions offered by the scrap metal trade. carpet = three pounds (3) or three hundred pounds (300), or sometimes thirty pounds (30). 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. Mispronounced by some as 'sobs'. 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. tom/tom mix = six pounds (6), 20th century cockney rhyming slang, (Tom Mix = six). nicker a pound (1). biscuit = 100 or 1,000. Other suggestions connecting the word pony with money include the Old German word 'poniren' meaning to pay, and a strange expression from the early 1800s, "There's no touching her, even for a poney [sic]," which apparently referred to a widow, Mrs Robinson, both of which appear in a collection of 'answers to correspondents' sent by readers and published by the Daily Mail in the 1990s. Z-Cars - 1960s and 70s TV police drama set in Liverpool. The 'where there's much there's brass' expression helped maintain and spread the populairity iof the 'brass' money slang, rather than cause it. The word dollar is originally derived from German 'Thaler', and earlier from Low German 'dahler', meaning a valley (from which we also got the word 'dale'). 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. We also list many of Britain's museums, churches, castles and other points of interest. Spruce probably mainly refers to spruce beer, made from the shoots of spruce fir trees which is made in alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties. Origin: US/UK. In the US a nickel is more commonly a five cent coin. a monkey bridge. In addition, Britain-specific words are included. Wangle - means to get or do something that is a bit devious. Shop - report someone to the police or higher authorities. There is scads of Cockney slang for money. Grand - a thousand (colloquial) usually referring to money. Stiver was used in English slang from the mid 1700s through to the 1900s, and was derived from the Dutch Stiver coin issued by the East India Company in the Cape (of South Africa), which was the lowest East India Co monetary unit. 22. 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. 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. 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. Very occasionally older people, students of English or History, etc., refer to loose change of a small amount of coin money as groats. Origin unknown. Polari- secret language used by gay men to avoid detection before homosexuality was decriminalized in 1967. 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'). Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies. 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. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. Pub - public house, drinking establishment. Pissed - drunk (slang) in British English; "angry" in American English. Lit - Amazing or exciting. 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. The spelling cole was also used. Scrummy - (upper class) slang for delicious, scrumptious. In finance, a Monkey is British slang for 500 pounds sterling. 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. Give us a bell - call me on the telephone. In spoken use 'a garden' is eight pounds. Usage of bob for shilling dates back to the late 1700s. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean 500. Prang - a (minor) accident involving a motor vehicle. 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. A pound in the Smoke is a Nicker A hundred of them make a ton And what rhymes with Nicker but . Scottish Slang for Money. 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). monkey meaning: 1. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. The symbolism of the monkey is connected to deep knowledge and intelligence. It is also used to express shock, awe, and/or amazement. Mither - Northern word meaning pester or irritate. In the 1800s a oner was normally a shilling, and in the early 1900s a oner was one pound. Chav - derogatory term for member of the "lower classes". 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. A dosser is the noun. 5. cows = a pound, 1930s, from the rhyming slang 'cow's licker' = nicker (nicker means a pound). If youre in London you may overhear many other terms for money and many of these will come from cockney rhyming slang. Boozer - pub, or a person who drinks a lot. There were twenty Stivers to the East India Co florin or gulden, which was then equal to just over an English old penny (1d). Shambolic - disorganized, all over the place. nicker = a pound (1). Earlier English spelling was bunts or bunse, dating from the late 1700s or early 1800s (Cassells and Partridge). Baccy: shortened word for "tobacco;" also, "wacky backy" means marijuana. Monkeys are primates. It's what is known as dehumanizing language, "language that deprives a person of human qualities or attributes.". Perhaps based on jack meaning a small thing, although there are many possible different sources. Slang continues to evolve with new words coming into use every year. coal = a penny (1d). That's about 20p. 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. Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". As in "We threw everything except the kitchen sink at the problem.". * /There is [] A Dictionary of American Idioms monkey Below is the UK transcription for 'monkey': Modern IPA: mkj. 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