A bit of fun for a cold, wet March Friday…
We’ve already scoured the Oxford English dictionary for phrases that mean ‘broke’ and ’rolling in it’, so I though I’d gather together all the words I can possibly find for ‘money’.
Here they are, sixty three of them, a huge number of words and phrases for one concept, which just goes to prove how important money has been to our everyday lives since Celtic times.
- money
- bills
- cash
- dosh
- lucre
- banknotes
- cold cash
- folding money
- specie
- medium of exchange
- hard cash
- moolah
- notes
- bill
- bit
- bread
- bucks
- quids
- pennies
- coinage / coin
- currency
- capital
- loot
- dough
- finance
- funds
- gold
- gravy
- green-backs
- tender
- medium of exchange
- pay/payment
- riches
- resources
- silver
- wad
- wealth
- wherewithall
- bullion
- cabbage
- chicken feed
- dinero
- green stuff
- readies
- lot
- mazuma
- principal
- assets
- reserve
- savings
- scratch
- spondoolies
- wampum
- change
- copper
- chips
- jack
- doubloon
- mintage
- silver
- pin money
- pocket money
- wedge
Can you think of any more?
