finnuf

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English

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Etymology

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From Yiddish פֿינף (finf, five). Doublet of five, pimp, and fin.

Noun

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finnuf (plural finnufs)

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
    • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129:
      Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
    • 1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark, page 216:
      "Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"

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