| 释义 |
mazuma U.S. slang.|məˈzuːmə|
Also mazume.
[Yiddish.]
Money, cash.
1904G. V. Hobart Jim Hickey i. 15 We're a sad bunch..when we haven't a little mazume in the vest pocket. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 131 Burn a few punk sticks in the joss house to the great god Mazuma. 1907C. E. Mulford Bar-20 viii. 90 When th' mazuma is divided up it won't buy a meal. 1913― Coming of Cassidy xii. 191 ‘What's this?’ he demanded... ‘Money,’ replied Hopalong. ‘It's that shiny stuff you buy things with. Spondulix, cash, mazuma.’ 1926Amer. Speech May 456/1 How many of those using the word mazuma know its meaning? As originally used by the Jewish people it is ‘m'zumon’ and is a Chaldean word meaning in literal translation the ‘ready necessary’. It is employed in the Talmud which is written in Chaldean and not Hebrew. 1941Amer. Mercury May 615/1 When you die, you have to leave your mazuma behind. 1943W. H. Chase Sourdough Pot xvi. 97 A sign tacked on a tent pole, informed the public, that ‘No Credit—You must product the mazuma. We are not in business for our health.’ 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 1154/3 Likewise piling up its mazuma by legerdemain. |