ooftish
English
Etymology
From Yiddish אויפֿן טיש (oyfn tish) in the phrase געלט אויפֿן טיש (gelt oyfn tish, “money on the table”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuːf.tɪʃ/
Noun
ooftish (uncountable)
- (archaic, British slang) Money.
- 1889 August 27, Daily News:
- Henry Smith, her coachman, next gave evidence. He said he heard King say he had come after some ooftish.
- 1897, A. R. Marshall, Pomes[sic] from the Pink 'Un, page 76:
- And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, / Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:money
Derived terms
- feathered oof-bird (“large source of money”)
- make the oof-bird walk (“to circulate money”)
- oof (“money”)
- oof-bag (“source of money”)
- oof-bird (“source of money”)
- oofless (“poor”)
- oofy (“rich”)
- pad the oof (“to fold banknotes to appear twice as much”)
References
- Farmer, John Stephen (1902) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 5, page 107
- “ooftish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- shoofti