deanerdeenern.
/ˈdiːnə/ slang.
A shilling. Before the advent of decimal currency esp. frequently in Australia and New Zealand.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling
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1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 162/2 Deaner, a shilling (country phrase).
1846 R. L. Snowden Magistrate's Assistant 342 Shilling, Deaner, also twelver.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 313/1 No, I'll give you a deuce o' deeners (two shillings).
1864 Times 12 Oct. 11/6 One woman said, ‘Where's the “deaner”.’
1901 H. Lawson Joe Wilson & his Mates ii. 280 ‘Stumped?’ inquired Jim. ‘Not a blanky, lurid deener!’ drawled Bill.
1904 Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 4/4 I've played it [sc. a cornet] six hour for a deaner and a haddock-bone disguised in batter as a bit o' cold, fried fish.
1907 Daily Chron. 26 July 4/7 In Ireland the ‘denarius’ lingers in the name for a shilling—a dener.
1908 Daily Chron. 5 Feb. 4/7 Here we come to classic reminiscences of the denarius! It is a ‘bob’, and ‘owt deners’ is a florin.
1922 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 367 A shilling..is frequently a ‘deener’ [in cockney speech].
1930 V. Palmer Men are Human xxix. 273 I'd like a diener for every quart of whisky the old boy's sunk in his day.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Dec. 31/1 O' course I waited, after spendin' the bob; 'e looked a bloke 'oo'd be good for more than a deener.
1937 A. Upfield Mr. Jelly's Business xiv. 146 If I 'ad lorst a deaner I'd have got hell.
1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 77 Could you give me the lend of a bob?.. I'm on the beach myself, I said, but I can make it a deener.
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