| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
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Why is the word dolly used to mean money ?
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| 1189.1 | Can you say "euphemism"? I knew you could. | SMURF::BINDER | Errabit quicquid errare potest. | Fri Mar 21 1997 07:09 | 12 |
Probably for much the same reason as many of these:
boodle (slang), bucks (US), brass (British, slang), bread (slang),
cash, coin (US), currency, dough (slang), filthy lucre, gelt (slang),
green (US, colloquial), kale (US, slang), legal tender, lettuce (US),
lolly (British, slang), long green (US), loot (slang), lucre, mazuma
(slang), moolah (slang), pelf, ready (British, slang), rhino (chiefly
British), scratch (slang), shekels (slang), spondulicks (slang), wampum
(US, colloquial)
This list is from Roget's II Thesaurus, Electronic Version, � 1996,
Softkey International.
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| 1189.2 | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Fri Mar 21 1997 17:17 | 7 | |
Re .1
Interesting collection of slang words mixed into that list.
If genuine and genuine-but-misspelled non-English words are
slang, why aren't genuine English words also slang?
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1189.3 | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Digits are never unfun! | Thu Apr 03 1997 10:06 | 8 | |
....
and there's 'lolly' too
derek
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| 1189.4 | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Digits are never unfun! | Thu Apr 03 1997 10:08 | 6 | |
...
and 'dosh' (from UK) and brass razzoo (australia) [as in I'm broke I
don't have a b r to my name)
derek
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| 1189.5 | SMURF::BINDER | Errabit quicquid errare potest. | Fri Apr 04 1997 07:08 | 6 | |
Re .3
It must be too early in the morning, Derek. For lolly, look at the
first word of the fourth line in the listing in .1.
:-)
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| 1189.6 | Hello dolly | MKTCRV::MANNERINGS | Mon Apr 07 1997 10:16 | 8 | |
yep, I suppose dolly is a mix of dough and lolly.
Dolly is also the name of the cloned sheep which made the news
recently.
It is also a girl's name, but I don't know what it is short for.
..Kevin..
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| 1189.7 | how was it used? | CPEEDY::BRADLEY | Chuck Bradley | Tue Apr 08 1997 15:31 | 9 |
>> It is also a girl's name, but I don't know what it is short for. sometimes Deloris, sometimes Dorothea, most often just a nickname. it was Dolley Madison. back to .0, where did you encounter the use? might it be cockney rhyming slang? | |||||
| 1189.8 | ask 'er abaht it mate | MKTCRV::MANNERINGS | Wed Apr 09 1997 06:33 | 5 | |
From a cockney lady :-)
yes, it is a rhyme for lolly, I suppose
..Kevin..
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| 1189.9 | WOTVAX::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Wed Apr 09 1997 07:22 | 3 | |
Dolly is a nickname for Dorothy where I came from in the UK.
Nick
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