Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Polari) a shilling (5p); money in general.

1846		Swell’s Night Guide 58: Half-a-bull is half-a-bull; it’s multa denarly if you cops a multa swag.
1850		Man of Pleasure’s Illus. Pocket-book n.p.: ‘[I]ts multa denarly if you cops a multa swag’.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor III 139/2: The slang for [...] ‘I have got no money’ is, ‘My nabs has nanti dinali’.
1864		Western Dly Press 24 Oct. 4/3: Such expressions as these—‘fake the cly,’ ‘rumbo cully,’ ‘nante denali,’ ‘varda my nibs,’ &c, have some means got out of their proper channel, and have been appropriated by third-rate actors.
1870		South London Press 8 Oct. n.p.: [advert] So don’t forget when you’ve the tin To here spend your ‘dinarley’ [F&H].
1875		T. Frost Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Money generally is spoken of as denarlies.
1876		C. Hindley Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 170: A lot of us chaps propose to assist you [...] in getting you up a rare full house to help you and your ‘school’ to some dinarly and mungarly, i.e., money and food.
1891		Birmingham Dly Post 31 Mar. 3/4: I append a few cant words and expressions for those who take an interest in the subject [...] dinary (money).
1893		P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 12: We never count the denarley on the pitch.
1907		D. Stewart Shadows of the Night in Illus. Police News 24 Aug. 12/1: ‘I wants Dinanah! — pieces, tin, coin’.
1958		M.A. Crane ‘Miscellany’ in AS XXXIII:3 225: A penny is a dollar, a nickel is five dollars, and so on and dinars and shekels are generic terms taking in all big cash.
2010		W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: To a male prostitute money was called a measure or dinarly.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 291/1: dinarly, dinarla, dinaly money.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 5: I want nanti dinarli for my liver [...] no money for this venture.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 577: The dinari they trousered in a week was more than most people make in several lifetimes.