List of alternative names for currency explained
See also: Slang terms for money. This is a list of alternative names for currency. A currency refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.[1] [2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.[3]
Alternative names for currency
English Currency (Cockney Rhyming Slang)[4]
- Generic Term: "bread" from "Bread & Honey" for "Money"
- £5: "Lady Godiva" or "fiver"
- £10: "cockle" from "Cock & Hen" or "tenner"
- £1000: "bag" from "Bag of Sand" for "grand"
Other
- Aussie – Australian dollar
- Bank [5]
- Benjamins
- Benjie – a name for a USD $100 bill that was sometimes tucked away by touring deadheads for emergency use
- Bills
- Bones
- Bread
- Buck/bucks
- C-note - slang for $100 bill (for the Roman numeral C, meaning 100)
- Cabbage
- Cheddar
- Clams
- Coin
- Cream
- Chips
- Dead presidents
- Dosh[6]
- Dough
- Fiver – £5 note, USD $5 bill
- Grand – £1,000, USD $1,000
- Greenbacks
- Green Stuff
- Gs – Increments of USD $1,000
- Jackson – USD $20 bill
- Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand
- Large – £1,000, USD $1,000
- Lettuce
- Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar, because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side
- Loot
- Moolah
- P – money, pennies
- Perak – Indonesian rupiah for coin, derivative from silver.
- Quid – Pound sterling
- Racks – large sums of money, 10 of these make one stack
- Rocks – coins
- Sawbuck
- Scratch
- Singles
- Smackers
- Soft money – a colloquial term for paper currency in the United States
- Spot – such as "five spot", "ten spot", etc.
- Stacks - large sums of money, 10 racks
- Tenner – £10 note, USD $10 bill
- Toonie – Canadian two dollar coin
- Two bits
- Wad
- Wonga – British slang [7]
- Conto – Brazilian Real
- Pau – Brazilian Real
- Pila – Brazilian Real
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: currency . The Free Dictionary.
- Book: Bernstein, Peter . Peter L. Bernstein . A Primer on Money, Banking and Gold . 3rd . 2008 . 1965 . Wiley . Hoboken, NJ . 978-0-470-28758-3 . 233484849 . 4–5.
- Web site: Currency . Investopedia.
- Web site: Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary . CockneyRhymingSlang .
- Web site: 50 Slang Terms for Money. Mark Nichol. Daily Writing Tips.
- Web site: OED. dosh, n.. 13 Feb 2021. Oxford English Dictionary.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160924194518/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wonga “Wonga”