meaning 'small one', and 'bender', because sixpence coins were thin and easily bendable. It's because of this latter nickname that we know refer to getting drunk as 'going on a bender' – sixpence used to be enough money to get quite drunk!
7.A wealthy person, family, or group:to come from old money; to marry into money. Idioms: for (one's) money According to one's opinion, choice, or preference:For my money, it's not worth the trouble. in the money 1.SlangRich; affluent. ...
(St.Louis) Doe=dough=money Drama=badthings Drop-top=convertiblecar Dope=drugs Dirt=badthings Diss=todisrespect Dobids=injail E,pills=extasy=X=,adrug,adrug Free=freestyle Fly=attractive Feds=Federal,Agents=,federalagents FlipDascript=changestatus Figga=figure Fire=isverygood(adjective) Flow=rap...
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Goree, Money, but chiefly Gold. Old-Mr.-Gory, a piece of Gold. 1754 Scoundrel’s Dict. 18: A Piece of old Gold – Old Mr. Gory. 1785, 1788, 1796 Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. 1811 Lex. Balatronicum. 1823 Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. ...
Raising fundraising to lofty levels: Florida students raise more money thinking charitably than peddling products Ferguson, who successfully launched a Canadian version of Coronation Street, Riverdale, three years ago, said: "There will be grumpy old people and objectionable young people, just as there...
In Old English, a word for journey wasfaru[ˈfɑ.ru]. It’s related to the modern Englishfare(money paid for transport, a paying passenger, food and drink), which used to mean a journey, voyage, course or passage.Farewellalso comes from the same roots [source]. ...
You Pays Yer Money and You Takes Yer Choice : British Slang for Pounds and Pennies, Old and Newdoi:10.1179/nam.1973.21.1.1LeonardR.N.AshleyInformaworldNames
Sure, kids these days probably know that banks are closed on holidays and Sundays. But in the 1920s, the slang phrasebank's closedhad nothing to do with where you got your money from. Instead, this meant "no kissing" or "no making out." So you could tell that guy you're not intere...
aThe money difficult to make, the excrement is unpalatable! 金钱难做,屎是味道差的![translate] aPour my heart into it. 倾吐我的心脏入它。[translate] aTo save embarrassment to people still living I have given to the persons who play a part in this story names of my own contriving, and ...
"Luftmensch," literally meaning "air person," is the Yiddish way of describing someone who is a bit of a dreamer. Did You Know? Lexicographers at Dictionary.com are constantly writing definitions for new words to add to the site.