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Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at actual, the, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ . Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] 10/- is a ‘half bean,’ a ‘smelt’.at half-a-bean (n.) under bean, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Sixpence is a ‘sprat,’ ‘zack,’ ‘tanner,’ ‘fizzy,’ ‘bender,’ ‘cripple’’.at bender, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A shilling is a ‘bob,’ ‘blow,’ ‘peg,’ ‘dener,’ ‘north-easter’.at blow, n.4
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at blunt, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A million is a ‘marigold’; £100,000 is a
‘plum.’ £1000 is a ‘cow’.at cow, n.2
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Sixpence is a ‘sprat,’ ‘zack,’ ‘tanner,’ ‘fizzy,’ ‘bender,’ ‘cripple’’.at cripple, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at John Davis, the, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at dirt, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 28 June 14/3: Emily Soldene claimed that the Melbourne cant phrase for a policeman — ‘John Dunn’ [...] ‘was pure Collingwood’ for ‘gens d’armes’.at John Dunn, n.2
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Specific sums are variously named. £500 is a ‘monkey’; £25 a: ‘pony’; £10, a ‘double finnup’; £5, a ‘single finnup’ (word probably a Yiddish form of the Geman ‘funf’) .at finnip, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Sixpence is a ‘sprat,’ ‘zack,’ ‘tanner,’ ‘fizzy,’ ‘bender,’ ‘cripple’’.at fizzy, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at flimsy, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A sovereign is a ‘glistener,’ ‘mousetrap,’ ‘new hat,’ ‘quid,’ ‘remedy,’ ‘stranger,’ ‘thick ’un’.at glistener, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 22 Mar. 9/2: Captain the Hon. Alured
Blank, A.D.G. (who later got three
years for a remarkably amateurish
variation of the gold-brick swindle).at goldbrick, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John. Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at hard, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at iron, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 10 May 20/3: Take a quiet game of two-up, / Where a big ‘joint’ starts a row.at joint, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 10 May 20/3: Or if yer goes out racein’ / An’ a spieler ‘bites yer lug,’ / An' puts yer on a ‘stiff-'un,’ / Well, yer calls yerself a ‘mug’.at bite someone’s lug (v.) under lug, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at lurry, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A million is a ‘marigold’; £100,000 is a
‘plum.’ £1000 is a ‘cow’.at marigold, n.1
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] Specific sums are variously named. £500 is a ‘monkey’; £25 a: ‘pony’; £10, a ‘double finnup’; £5, a ‘single finnup’ (word probably a Yiddish form of the Geman ‘funf’) .at monkey, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at moss, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A sovereign is a ‘glistener,’ ‘mousetrap,’ ‘new hat,’ ‘quid,’ ‘remedy,’ ‘stranger,’ ‘thick ’un’.at mousetrap, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A sovereign is a ‘glistener,’ ‘mousetrap,’ ‘new hat,’ ‘quid,’ ‘remedy,’ ‘stranger,’ ‘thick ’un’.at new hat (n.) under new, adj.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 24 May 20/1: To boom the show he offered a fiver for the definition of ‘Ning-Nong,’ but nobody collected. The reference was to a peer’s waster son being called a ‘nlng-nong’ by one of the gay girls.at ning-nong, n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A shilling is a ‘bob,’ ‘blow,’ ‘peg,’ ‘dener,’ ‘north-easter’.at north-easter (n.) under north, adj.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at oil of argentum (n.) under oil of..., n.
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] A shilling is a ‘bob,’ ‘blow,’ ‘peg,’ ‘dener,’ ‘north-easter’.at peg, n.3
Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .at piece, n.
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