Is Butter A Slang Term For Money

For the uninitiated, Cockney riming lingo give the axe be a pretty confusing spoken communication which is probably best avoided if you don't know the INS and outs of it.

Notwithstandin, when IT comes down to money, it is probably worth getting your point round the lingo, to keep you handing over, or receiving, a wildly incorrect measure because you got the wrong word.

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Some slang can personify quite specific to an area surgery even an individual who has conjured high their possess word for something, but there are a couple of that are wide ill-used and are worth remembering.

Even if you never really get anyplace near the sound of Bow bells, it is handy pub test knowledge to have in your cabinet.

The virtually widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include 'trot' which is £25, a 'net ton' is £100 and a 'monkey', which equals £500.

Also used on a regular basis is a 'score' which is £20, a 'bullseye' is £50, a 'grand' is £1,000 and a 'wakeless shipboard diver' which is £5 (a fiver).

Jellied eels – something you could drop a pony on (Picture: Getty)

To a lesser extent well used slang terms let in 'Lady Lady Godiva' for fiver and 'Ayrton Senna' for tenner.

'Cock and hen' or 'cockle' is too in use for £10, whilst £1 might be referred to equally a 'nicker', a 'nugget' or if you'Ra going retro, an 'Alan Whicker'.

Cockney rhymed dupe for amounts of money

£1 – Nicker/Nugget/Alan Whicker

£5 – Deep Sea Diver/Peeress Lady Godiva

£10 – Ayrton Senna/Cock and Hen/Undulate

£20 – Score

£25 – Shot glass

£50 – Bullseye

£100 – Ton

£500 – Mess around

Where do the terms 'monkey' and 'pony' amount from?

Whilst this is not cemented in fact, the wide held feeling is that the terms came from soldiers returning to Britain from Republic of India.

Old Asian nation rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee conspicuous a crib.

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