gold n.
1. human excrement [the colour of faeces].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 142: Who was that [...] that dung’d in his own cap [...] and carry’d home the old gold to enrich his radish-bed. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: laystall a dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied, or in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t--d man, is stored. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. |
2. money.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Possum’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 83: He thort he’d take it easy while he had a little gold. | |
| Sporting Times 26 May 2/1: Once more I saw a bit of gold in the offing. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Really the Blues 20: A lot of the guys who hung around were squares who worked for their gold. | |
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 6: Mr. --------, I don’t want to kick off on the wrong side of the street but I know you are well policed on the type of slave I put down. I am getting good gold for it but it is not heavy enough. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 43: She asked him to come over [...] and not worry about gold for gas to get back. | |
| (con. 1930s–50s) Night People 117: Gold. Money. | |
| ‘You Played Yourself’ 🎵 200,000 records sold / And these brothers start yellin’ ’bout gold. | |
| Chopper From The Inside 80: I was in it more for giggles than gold. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
3. (Aus.) one- and two-dollar coins.
| More You Bet 44: There is usually a pouch sewn into the apron of the bag to accomodate the ‘gold’ [...] that is the $1 and $2 coins (‘gold’ of course being their colour and not their composition). |
4. in the context of drugs [? the colour or the value].
(a) a hypodermic syringe.
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 274: She punctured his arm and popped the gold into mush. |
(b) marijuana.
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 103: gold acapulco gold. | |
| Strange Peaches 186: Shit, they sell it for $200 a pound without no trouble, maybe $300 a pound if it’s good gold. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: Jamaica gold – marijuana. | |
| Bk of Jargon 337: gold: Any of several very potent varieties of marijuana. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Gold — marijuana. |
(c) crack cocaine.
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Gold — Crack Cocaine. |
(d) heroin.
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Gold — [...] heroin. |
In compounds
1. (also gold-digger) a latrine cleaner.
| Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Gadouard. a gould-finder, Jakes-farmer. | |
| Spanish Gypsy II ii : And if his acres, being sold for a maravedii a turf for larks in cages, cannot fill this pocket, give ’em to goldfinders. | |
| London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 94: The Gold-finders hold the sense of smelling the least of vse, and do not much care for touching the businesse they haue in hand. | |
| (trans.) Gate of Languages Unlocked Ch. 58 624: The common draught-house (jakes) [...] which the jakes-farmer [gold-finder] makes cleane. | |
| Merry Drollery in Choyce Drollery (1876) 242: From gold finders and night-weddings [...] Libera nos Domine. | |
| Hogan-Moganides 16: Hee’d anything to turn a Penny, And was Gold-finder e’re a Ginny. | |
| Wits Paraphras’d 50: With water and some Rags they threw. / They made me clean with much ado. / They meant it well, but had been kinder, / To leave me here to the Gold-finder. | |
| London Spy II 26: My Friend [...] told me ’twas a Gold-finders Caravan, carrying Treasure to their Land-bank by the Salt-Peter Houses. | |
| London Terraefilius I 13: A Talkative Dogmatical piece of Snarling Philosopher, that will empty the fullest Coffee-House [...] in half the time that an Expert Gold-finder can a House of Office. | |
| York Spy 11: An old gambling Cock loft, which stunk as bad as [...] an House of Office when the Gold-finders are emptying it. | |
 | Serious & Cleanly Meditations upon a House of Office. Dedicated to the Goldfinders of Great Britain [title page]. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘An Irish Wedding’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 114: From Cook-Maids as nasty as any Gold-finder / [...] / Good Lord deliver us. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. |
| New General Eng. Dict. (4th edn) n.p.: Gold-Finder A genteel name for him whose business it is to empty privies, vulgarly called a Tom-turd-man. | |
| Midnight Rambler 20: It was a gold-finder’s waggon carrying treasure to a receptacle near Tottenham Court Road. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Both Sides of the Gutter part II 8: This reptile is very much given to houses of office, and no gold-finder wades through the dirty work of those places with such enjoyment as the Rat. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Sun. Flash (NY) 12 Sept. n.p.: The only daughter of an opulent gold-finder or night scavenger. | |
| Musa Proterva in Atkins (1982) n.p.: Who would care to watch a crew of goldfinders dancing round the shrine of Venus Cloacina? | |
| Warwickshire Word-Book 94: Gold-digger. An emptier of compost holes: a Jakes-man. |
2. a confidence trickster.
| New General Eng. Dict. (4th edn) n.p.: Gold-Finder [...] also a cant name for a cheat, who under the pretence of finding a piece of money, and inviting a by-stander to partake of a treat, &c., out of it, endeavours to get him to play at cards, dice, &c., in order to win or cheat him of his money; they are sometimes also called ‘guinea-droppers’. |
see nugget n. (4)
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see separate entries.
see separate entry.
see separate entries.
(US) a Californian.
| Harper’s Mag. Jan. 317/2: Nicknames given to the States and people of this republic [...] California, Gold-Hunters [DA]. | |
| Chicago Weekly News 29 Apr. 4/3: California is the Golden state and its people are Gold-Hunters [DA]. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
In phrases
see under dig v.1
(US teen) of a woman, to lose one’s virginity prior to marriage.
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 given up the gold When a female gives up her virginity before the right time, usually before marriage. |