Slang for Money

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  1. JulieW

    JulieW Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Fascinating link on the slang terms used for money in the UK:

    http://www.learnenglish.de/slang/moneyslang.html

    BTW - Cockney slang for a sovereign was "Jimmy O'Goblin"

    Another fascinating find:

    In Victorian England the criminal slang for a spoon was "chatty feeder"

    If you stole the spoons from a house you "napped the feeders", or if you stole the silver spoons, you "napped the smash feeders"
     
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    hahaha I love English slang. I've got no idea what they're saying but I love it

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7aj1SCE8k[/youtube]
     
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    Australian slang for pre-decimal coins that I can remember ... well these terms were used in my area anyway. ;)

    Two Shilling (Floren) = 2 bob

    One Shilling = bob

    Six Pence = zack

    Three Pence = trey
     
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    Silver is money.
    Gold is money.

    The other stuff is currency.

    $20 note is a lobster.

    $50 note is a pineapple
     
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    I guess a lot of people agree with that, here in Mexico the slang terms for many years were:
    Oro (gold) = Refer to Dollars or U.S. currency
    Plata (Silver) = Refer to Mexican pesos
     
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    Here in the U.S. its:
    Moolah
    Dough
    Folding money
    Greenbacks
    Fin (five dollars)
    Ten Spot (ten dollars)
    Benjamin's (hundred dollars)
    Dead Presidents (any paper dollar denomination)
    Saw buck ( ten dollars)
    C note (hundred dollars)
    Large ( thousand dollars)
    Simoleans
    Slackers
    etc
     
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    Used to call the old oz $100 notes white pointers or great whites
     
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    $100 Grassy Lawn
    $50 Lobster
    $20 Pineapple

    (from memory!)
     
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    Took me first Rock N Roll Gregory Peck to the Tin Tank to get me some Bugs Bunny for the sky rocket, the teller was a bit of a Westpac Banker, off to the rubbity-dub for a pot of good cheer, a sway and swerve, come on down it's my Wally Grout, but make it quick I'm on me last Oxford scholar.
     
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    Bees and Honey (Bees)

    Copper Penny
    Joey Theepenny bit
    Tanner Sixpence
    Bob Shilling
    2 Bob 2 Shillings
    10 Bob !/2 Pound note
    Nicker 1 Pound note

    Never see anything bigger than a nicker when I was a Saucepan!

    But I also took me first Rock n to the Tin and got some Bees in me Sky, tellers were always right J Arthur,s ! got in me Kipper and hit the frog to the Rub way before the Currant went down and got a quite a few Pigs down me old Greg.
     
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    We call the Aussie fiver a "pinkback" when putting up a friendly wager.
     
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    Scratch

    Cheddar

    Loot

    Bread

    Dough

    Paper

    These are the first to mind
     
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