Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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I like to use the phrase "A nice little earner" as appropriate... for money I tend to use the term "dosh" and then usually refer to myself as being short of it - "brassic" or "potless"...
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O/T What slang term do you use for Money?
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Apart from the ones already mentioned i also use...
Dollar Bills
Sheets (10 sheets, 20 sheets etc)
Nuggets (usually £1's up to a fiver)
Moolah
and for retro occations, BOB!
Dollar Bills
Sheets (10 sheets, 20 sheets etc)
Nuggets (usually £1's up to a fiver)
Moolah
and for retro occations, BOB!
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... A new "cash map" of Britain, drawn up by Barclays, suggests there
is more slang for sterling, than for almost any other everyday item.
The Fluent in Finance report from the bank, catalogues the rich
vocabulary which has grown up around money over the past 300 years
and celebrates the language of money from the times of Shakespeare to
the latest terms in use today.
Across the whole of the UK, "dosh" - which derives from dollar and
cash - is the favourite term for money, while in Scotland the
word "dough" is most commonly used.
"Wonga" is the top slang term in London, while in the west country,
cash is referred to as "lolly". In the south it is "moolah" and in
Wales its known as "readies".
Folk in the north-east of England refer to the contents of their
purses or wallets as "bread", while in the north-west and Yorkshire
its "brass". The term "wad" is favourite in the West Midlands.
The Barclays report also found bizarre terms for money such as "rogan
josh" and "orange squash" as cash gains its own rhyming slang.
...
John Ayt , editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Slang and author of the
report, said: "When it comes to language, money is one of the most
prolific and productive sources of vocabulary across the world.
...
THE Top 10 money terms in the UK are:
1. Dosh
2. Dough
3. Readies
4. Brass
5. Bread
6. Wad
7. Lolly
8. Wedge
9. Wonga
10. Moolah
from
http://www.yaelf.com/archives.shtml
(extract from "The Scotsman", article by Andrew Murray-Watson)
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=635172002
Comment: I think dough was the common one in use in my part of
Sussex. It is regional. Wonga is never used locally as this means you
are an immigrant from the Town (London).
I think I changed my use from dough to dosh after an Adam Faith TV
programme of the same name, which I never even watched once.
So the term dosh might have come from the combination of the two
words dough and cash and I have forgotten what the term is when two
words are merged like this?
is more slang for sterling, than for almost any other everyday item.
The Fluent in Finance report from the bank, catalogues the rich
vocabulary which has grown up around money over the past 300 years
and celebrates the language of money from the times of Shakespeare to
the latest terms in use today.
Across the whole of the UK, "dosh" - which derives from dollar and
cash - is the favourite term for money, while in Scotland the
word "dough" is most commonly used.
"Wonga" is the top slang term in London, while in the west country,
cash is referred to as "lolly". In the south it is "moolah" and in
Wales its known as "readies".
Folk in the north-east of England refer to the contents of their
purses or wallets as "bread", while in the north-west and Yorkshire
its "brass". The term "wad" is favourite in the West Midlands.
The Barclays report also found bizarre terms for money such as "rogan
josh" and "orange squash" as cash gains its own rhyming slang.
...
John Ayt , editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Slang and author of the
report, said: "When it comes to language, money is one of the most
prolific and productive sources of vocabulary across the world.
...
THE Top 10 money terms in the UK are:
1. Dosh
2. Dough
3. Readies
4. Brass
5. Bread
6. Wad
7. Lolly
8. Wedge
9. Wonga
10. Moolah
from
http://www.yaelf.com/archives.shtml
(extract from "The Scotsman", article by Andrew Murray-Watson)
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=635172002
Comment: I think dough was the common one in use in my part of
Sussex. It is regional. Wonga is never used locally as this means you
are an immigrant from the Town (London).
I think I changed my use from dough to dosh after an Adam Faith TV
programme of the same name, which I never even watched once.
So the term dosh might have come from the combination of the two
words dough and cash and I have forgotten what the term is when two
words are merged like this?
Moshe Gariani
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,203
is it a portmanteau...?
Hampden Park
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- Oct 7, 2003
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ickies
sheckles
bilbo bosh
sheckles
bilbo bosh
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
I am sure most folk who use 'spondulics', or a variant thereof, have little notion of its origin.... it's a an Ancient Greek slang usage of the word for a vertebra, spondulos. Apparently a pile of coins stacked up on payday resembled a vertebral column. The same word can be used of stone drums stacked up to form a pillar.
And if it weren't for Wodehouse, no one on this side of the Pond would even recognize the word.
And if it weren't for Wodehouse, no one on this side of the Pond would even recognize the word.
I think I got it from Ror.
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
Wonga!
dougdeep
New member
I call it money.
Statto
007
Bees and honey.
I thought the term was 'Bunce' short for Bunson Burner 'Nice little earner'
I like the term 'sheets' as in 'fuckin ell, you paid 50 sheets for that? You was robbed'
Cian
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Notes.
Pettitt303
Registered Drug Abuser
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Reading this thread I have realised that even though I grew up in the South East I am not a suvverner any more, most of the terms are like an alien language to me, they might as well be Swahili or Urdu. I just use the terms cash, money or describe the amount (eg: twenty pounds), what is wrong with that?