Crusty - usually young homeless or vagrant person stereotypically dreadlocked; can also mean angry or irritated. 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. Huff - to take offense as in "get the huff"; to inhale the vapors of something to become intoxicated as in to huff glue. Traditional IPA: mki 2. Fuzz - old, derogatory slang for the police. plum = One hundred thousand pounds (100,000). 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. To illustrate these glorious slang expressions, we teamed up with Art Money to create visuals using ACTUAL money, with each image created using the currency of the country of the term's origin. Easy when you know how.. g/G = a thousand pounds. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India. Loaded - having a great deal of money; rich or alternatively under the influence of alcohol or drugs. No other language in the world has been as bastardised as this one! 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. What does Kermit mean? Piece - piece of bread, sandwich (Glaswegian). oncer = (pronounced 'wunser'), a pound , and a simple variation of 'oner'. A popular slang word like bob arguably develops a life of its own. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac' (meaning what?.. Lit - Amazing or exciting. Britain is known for its drinking culture, so 'chunder' is a word you'll hear frequently the day after a night out. live, learn and work. Similarly words connected with sex and stupidity frequently have slang equivalents. bob = shilling (1/-), although in recent times now means a pound or a dollar in certain regions. The brass-nickel threepenny bit was minted up until 1970 and this lovely coin ceased to be legal tender at decimalisation in 1971. Anyone would think the Brits like a drink. Or head over to our facebook page https://facebook.com/theslangpodcast for updates and more slang! 'Monkey's uncle' is used as an expression of surprise. Its uncountable, so wed say: For ex: My son just bought a new house for three hundred thousand grand. carpet = three pounds (3) or three hundred pounds (300), or sometimes thirty pounds (30). The British word Quid originated from the American Colonies (circa-1700s) when the descendants of the original Scots-Irish colonists returned to the seas as Marines for what was to become the U.S. Navy. Porkies . Proper - done well; cf. Also expressed in cockney rhying slang as 'macaroni'. am gan to the toon - i'm going to Newcastle city centre. tony benn - ten pounds (10), or a ten pound note - cockney rhyming slang derived from the Labour MP and government minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn, popularly known as Tony Benn. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. Umpteen - large quantity, numerous times, huge amount or a load of something. 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. I'll be a monkey's uncle. medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers = money. Howff - meeting place, familiar haunt, usually a pub (Scotland) and in Dundee The Howff is a famous cemetery. Boyo. E.g." It was a great holiday, we just sat around cabbaging, topping up our tans and drinking cocktails." 2. From the late 20th century. archer = two thousand pounds (2,000), late 20th century, from the Jeffrey Archer court case in which he was alleged to have bribed call-girl Monica Coughlan with this amount. In the same way a ton is also slang for 100 runs in cricket, or a speed of 100 miles per hour. 11. What does Monkey mean in slang? The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. Chippy (Chippie) - slang for a fish and chip shop. In earlier times a dollar was slang for an English Crown, five shillings (5/-). Vibe - atmosphere, feeling. The most commonly used slang term for a pound is a, This expression has negative connotations, so, If youre in London you may overhear many other terms for money and many of these will come from, Some of the London slang for money is based on animals thought to have originally appeared on ruppe banknotes. thick'un/thick one = a crown (5/-) or a sovereign, from the mid 1800s. Meaning - Monkey Emoji Chunder. 4. the head of a pile-driver ( monkey engine) or of some similar mechanical device. Darwin (ten pound note, which features the face of Charles Darwin). 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. People commonly use this emoji to express embarrassment in an amusing way or to emphasize that they made a funny mistake. Definition of monkey_1 noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Wobbler - angry, irritated as in "throw a wobbler". 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. (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. Silver featured strongly in the earliest history of British money, so it's pleasing that the word still occurs in modern money slang. Bread - money from Cockney rhyming slang "bread and honey" = money. Origins are not certain. A combination of medza, a corruption of Italian mezzo meaning half, and a mispronunciation or interpretation of crown. Monkeys are primates. Boozer - pub, or a person who drinks a lot. Example in written form: In my new job Ill be earning 75K a year. Wacky - funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. These are just a few examples of British slang words for being drunk. It means to vomit from excessive drinking. Initially London slang, especially for a fifty pound note. The term ' nicker ' is probably connected to the use of nickel in the minting of coins. Scouser - native of Liverpool (colloquial). A 'double-finnif' (or double-fin, etc) means ten pounds; 'half-a-fin' (half-a-finnip, etc) would have been two pounds ten shillings (equal to 2.50). For ex: I spent over a hundred quid last weekend without even realising it! A 'flo' is the slang shortening, meaning two shillings. half a crown = two shillings and sixpence (2/6), and more specifically the 2/6 coin. 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. Nutmeg - soccer term to dribble or pass the ball through the legs of an opponent. These are a few of the most common slang terms for pre-decimal coins: Coppers - farthing, halfpenny, penny coins. Old Bill - (archaic) slang for the police. Yorkshire Pudding - side dish with roast beef made with eggs, flour, salt, milk and beef dripping cooked in the oven. A clod is a lump of earth. How do you say monkey in British? Wor lad - my boyfriend. Meaning: London slang for 500. ned = a guinea. 10. sick squid = six pounds (6), from the late 20th century joke - see squid. commodore = fifteen pounds (15). Cockwomble - foolish or obnoxious person. Flog a dead horse - waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be changed. ASAP: a popular term that stands for as soon as possible and is now used pretty much globally. Jimmy - "Jimmy Riddle" = piddle = urinate. In their natural habitat, monkeys are incredibly compassionate and carrying. 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. (Thanks M Johnson, Jan 2008). Porkies - lies, from the Cockney rhyming slang "pork pies" = lies. 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:. 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. The word can actually be traced back to Roman times, when a 'Denarius Grossus' was a 'thick penny' (equivalent). They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean 500. And 59 per cent don't understand what . Logically 'half a ton' is slang for 50. Meaning: used to describe extremely cold or extremely hot weather. half, half a bar/half a sheet/half a nicker = ten shillings (10/-), from the 1900s, and to a lesser degree after decimalisation, fifty pence (50p), based on the earlier meanings of bar and sheet for a pound. Logically, it follows that you'd have 240 pence to a pound. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a recent source of new expressions as is popular music such as grime. brown = a half-penny or ha'penny. Z-Cars - 1960s and 70s TV police drama set in Liverpool. All rights reserved. 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. An example of erroneous language becoming real actual language through common use. bice/byce = two shillings (2/-) or two pounds or twenty pounds - probably from the French bis, meaning twice, which suggests usage is older than the 1900s first recorded and referenced by dictionary sources. Now that youve got the slang down, youll want to work on your accent. Monkey (London via India) London slang for 500. generalise/generalize = a shilling (1/-), from the mid 1800s, thought to be backslang. Mispronounced by some as 'sobs'. The first things you gotta learn are that five pounds is a fiver, and ten pounds is a tenner. I'm propa paggered - i'm really tired. 6. 4. Wed like to share our expertise with you. Crazy. They are meant for comprehension rather than reproduction. When you monkey around, or monkey with something, you fool about or fiddle with it. 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