finnuf

English

Etymology

From Yiddish פֿינף‎ (finf, “five”). Doublet of five, pimp, and fin.

Noun

finnuf (plural finnufs)

  1. (Britain, slang, archaic) A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
    • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)
      Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
    • 1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark (page 216)
      "Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"
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