Jimmy O’Goblin n.
(orig. theatre) a sovereign or pound note; in pl., money.
In London’s Heart 283: Nobody but our two selves, mate, and the stuff’s all in Jimmy o’Goblins and flimsies. | ||
Benno and Some of the Push 119: A ’undred t’ twenty in Jimmy O’Gobs. | ‘At a Boxing Bout’ in||
Sport (Adelaide) 3 Aug. 14/4: They Say [...] That There are fifty jimmy o’ gobblins for the man who discovers a sober member of the Wild Kernut Gang. | ||
Handle of Sin 128: [...] put down one golden Jimmy-o-goblin-o, and pick up sixteen and some fragments that remain. | ||
My Man Jeeves [ebook] [A]n income, after-all, is only an income, whereas a chunk of o’ goblins is a pile. | ‘Rallying Round Old George’ in||
Autobiog. of a Thief 106: No numbers on the Jimmie-o’-goblins, and people had more of ’em. | ||
Have His Carcase 128: Three hundred golden sovereigns — that’s what he turned it into. Three hundred round, golden jimmy o’ goblins. | ||
Tiger of the Legion 86: ‘Forty-two francs—and the exchange at about seventy-six to the British jimmy-o’-goblin! | ||
Up the Frog 34: Jimmy O’Goblin – Sovereign. | ||
Guardian G2 12 Aug. 16: My father, in his eighties, recalls that when he was a child a pound (cash) was called a Jimmy O’Goblin. |