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With a title like that, you might be expecting a post about animals, but in fact it’s about slang terms for money – a gorilla<\/strong> is \u00a31,000, a monkey<\/strong> is \u00a3500 and a pony<\/strong> is \u00a325. <\/p>\n These names apparently come from old Indian banknotes and coins: the 25 Rupee coin had a pony on it, and the 500 Rupee note had a monkey on it, and British soldiers returning from India brought back such notes and slang terms with the to the UK. A gorilla possibly got its name because it’s two monkeys.<\/p>\n General slang terms for money in the UK include:<\/p>\n – cash<\/strong> – from Middle French caisse<\/em> \u200e(money box), from Old Proven\u00e7al caissa<\/em>, from Old Italian cassa<\/em>, from Latin capsa<\/em> \u200e(box, case), from capio<\/em> \u200e(I take, seize, receive), from Proto-Indo-European *keh\u2082p-<\/em> \u200e(to grasp)<\/p>\n – bread<\/strong> – from the rhyming slang bread & honey (money)<\/p>\n – dough<\/strong> – an extension from bread<\/p>\n – dosh<\/strong> – possibly a combination of dough and cash<\/p>\n – readies<\/strong> – from ‘ready money’<\/p>\n – spondulicks<\/strong> – unknown origin<\/p>\n – (filthy) lucre<\/strong> – from Latin lucrum<\/em> \u200e(profit)<\/p>\n – moola(h)<\/strong> – possibly from the Romani mol<\/em> \u200e(have value, be worth), or the French moulin<\/em> \u200e(mill)<\/p>\n – wonga<\/strong> – from Romani wangar<\/em> \u200e(coal), from Sanskrit \u0905\u0919\u094d\u0917\u093e\u0930<\/em> \u200e(\u00e1\u1e45g\u0101ra, charcoal, coal), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hang\u0101ra-<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European *h\u2081ong\u02b7l-<\/em>.<\/p>\n Do you use any of these, or other slang words for money, and\/or for specific amounts of money?<\/p>\n More on money slang: With a title like that, you might be expecting a post about animals, but in fact it’s about slang terms for money – a gorilla is \u00a31,000, a monkey is \u00a3500 and a pony is \u00a325. These names apparently come from old Indian banknotes and coins: the 25 Rupee coin had a pony on it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slang_terms_for_money<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.aldertons.com\/money.htm<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Wikisaurus:money<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"