Slang for Money

JulieW

JulieW

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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"
 
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]
 
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
 
Silver is money.
Gold is money.

The other stuff is currency.

$20 note is a lobster.

$50 note is a pineapple
 
boneyard said:
Silver is money.
Gold is money.

The other stuff is currency
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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
 
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
 
Bugs Bunny
Oxford scholar
Rock N Roll
Tin Tank
Gregory Peck

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.
 
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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