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These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to do with the theme of "money."  For fuller information about each usage, see the main list.  There are twenty-six files there.  Just click on to the appropriate letter.
 

ackers:  money

Alf a bar

bailiff: debt collector

Ballyand Day: the day before payday

banny-mug:  pottery shards as children's money

Bar:  a pound note

beer money: unemployment allowance

big penny:  threepenny bit

bomb, a: a great expense

bran mash:  cash

bunce: extra pay

carryin', to be:  to have money

club money:  savings club, or National Health Benefit

coppers:  money

crust:  salary

divi:  dividend

Dodger:  eight-sided threepenny piece

Dollar:  five shillings

dropsy:  gratuity

entrance fee(latchlifter):  price of a half pint

fades:  damaged and therefore cheap apples

fents:  leftover textiles, for cheap dresses

giro:  money

hansel: a money gift, usually to a child or someone who performs a service

(H)arry Freeman's, some: something for nothing

hite bownus:  extra pay, overtime

jockey:  extra pay

Joey:  threepenny piece

latchlifter:  price of a half pint

laying out, the:  on payday, putting the money due on top of each collection book

left tit:  threepenny bit

meg:  halfpenny

mingy:  penny-pinching

mopus:  small coin

mug, to:  to treat

nicker:  one pound note

Ocker:  a shilling

Og: half-penny

owsa plenty(House of Plenty): National Assistance Board

palm Sunday:  gratuity time

pepper-corn rent:  very low rent

poverty knock:  the effects of being poor

queer street: bankruptcy

readies:  money

skinny:  broke

skint:  broke

snip, a:  a good bargain

splosh:  money

sponds:  money

Sprowser:  sixpenny piece

sub: advance on one's wages

Tiddler:  silver threepenny piece

tight mare: stingy woman

tip-scrabbler:  rummager for coal in ash heaps

tontine: savings club

two meg: one penny
 


SAYINGS (MONEY, ETC.)


 


Wooden givyerra fright iffee wuz a ghost

He wouldn't give you last year's wet Echo

Erz owl scatter dthe cash: sarcastic reference to a person's thrift

Wooden givyerra spot iffee 'ad pimples: terminally cheap

Eez got moths inniz wollit

Wooden givyerra galassa worterrin dthe desert

Yiv got more chance o' dthe Queen buyin' yerra bevy

Ee wooden pissonyerrif yer wuz on fire

He wouldn't part with the smoke off his porridge

Ee wouldn't give you the steam off his pee

He wouldn't give a frog a jump

He wouldn't give a lavvy door a bang

He was born with a cramp in his fist

Eez gorriz pockits soan up

She dozen know dthe new munny's out

Rockefelluzin: anything but a big time spender

Put yerrandin yer pockit!

Ain't even gotter shillun fer ther meter: broke

got a well-stuffed mattress: hidin it

got a long stockin' somewhere

I'm, walkin' on ther blackin': I have not a dime, even to put soles on my shoes

it's ther rich what 'as ther pleasures; it's ther poower what gets ther blame

lenusser a meg

thinks wood don't grow on trees: it's as though he doesn't know things cost.

A caution to children: "keep your hand on your hapenny"

E's thah tight, e terns the gas off ter tern the bacon over.

E's thah tight, thah when e just wanted a nap, he cut a sleepin tableh inter quarters

E's thah tight, thah when is little boy was constipated, e tewk im down the deep dark cellar and told im ghost stories.

E's that tight, e goh double glazin purrin is ouse so is kids couldn't hear the ice cream van

"tight as a duck's arse"

Short arms and long pockets

on ther pig's back: doing very well financially

I was trying to cut the bread thinner and thinner: I was trying to make due with less.

Lend us a pound till I get straight: usually a comical request, said bending over from the waist

Lennus arf a bar til Nelson gets iz eye(or arm) back: the borrower is asking for unusually generous terms

Freeman's ale is best: ale tastes better when someone else is buying