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yenom

yenom noun: money.

Noun

yenom (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, costermongers) Money
    • My tailor serves you well, from a perger to a swell, / At Groves's you're safe to make a sure pitch, / For ready yenom down, there ain't a shop in town, / Can lick Groves in The Cut as well as Shoreditch.c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 162
    • “Kool retfa the posh” he’d call to Mum, “I’m going to ekat the yenom to the kaynab” Somewhere Dad had learnt Backslang and this was the preferred medium of communication between him and Mum when there were customers in the shop. What he had just said was, “Look after the shop, I’m taking the money...2014 October 18, “Golborne Road, Miscellaneous Memories”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 06 Jun 2017
    Synonyms:
    money

Synonyms of yenom

Origin of yenom

Back slang for money.

Questions about yenom

What does yenom mean?
Yenom means money.
What part of speech is yenom?
Yenom is a noun.

Words near yenom in the dictionary

  1. yenneps
  2. yennies
  3. yenning
  4. Yennora
  5. yenny
  6. yenom
  7. Yenpien
  8. yens
  9. Yensembam
  10. Yenser
  11. Yenshenbam

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