ooftish

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English

Etymology

From Yiddish אויפֿן טיש (oyfn tish) in the phrase געלט אויפֿן טיש (gelt oyfn tish, “money on the table”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈuːf.tɪʃ/

Noun

ooftish (uncountable)

(archaic, British slang) Money.
- 1889 August 27, Daily News:
  Henry Smith, her coachman, next gave evidence. He said he heard King say he had come after some ooftish.
- 1897, A. R. Marshall, Pomes from the Pink 'Un, page 76:
  And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, / Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:money

Derived terms

feathered oof-bird (“large source of money”)
make the oof-bird walk (“to circulate money”)
oof (“money”)
oof-bag (“source of money”)
oof-bird (“source of money”)
oofless (“poor”)
oofy (“rich”)
pad the oof (“to fold banknotes to appear twice as much”)

References

John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902) “ooftish”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume V, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 107.
“ooftish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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