simon
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Etymology
Uncertain. One theory suggests derivation from a joke based on the bible verse Acts 9:43, rendered as “Peter lodged with Simon a tanner”, a pun on the meanings of lodge (“stay in a place; put away money”). Partridge suggests that this not possible given the dates, however, and suggests instead derivation from some unknown person’s name. Attested from the late 17th century, with synonymous tanner attested from the 18th. Compare also simony, from a different biblical figure, Simon Magnus.
The “US dollar” sense derives from the earlier “sixpence”, perhaps influenced by the $ symbol.
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simon (plural simons)
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- ^ The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , 1611, →OCLC, Acts 9:43: “And it came to passe, that he taried many dayes in Ioppa, with one Simon a Tanner.”
- ^ “simon n1.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. See also tanner n.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eric Partridge (1937) “simon (or S.)”, in A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , London: Macmillan, page 770
- ^ “Simon, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
