tucker money
noun [mass noun] Australian informal, dated
A very small income or very small sum of money: I just work here for tucker money...
- The old pick-and-shovel, dynamite and dry-blowing methods were no longer yielding more than "tucker money" at the gold-fields.
- We all stay with Mother an' Father, him go work an' perhaps bring back tucker money.
- Some of them are just making tucker money.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from the notion that the sum is enough to buy food only.
- house help
- house hen
- household
- household appliance
- household beer
- household book
- household bread
- household brigade
- household business
- Household Cavalry
- household division
- household effects
- householder
- householdership
- household franchise
- household gods
- household goods
- household infantry
- householding
- household linen
- household loaf
- householdly
- householdman
- household management
- householdment