picaillon
French
Etymology
From Provençal piquar, from Vulgar Latin *pikkāre (compare Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish picar), itself either from an onomatopoetic root *pikk- (cf. also Latin picus, whence French pic), or alternatively, from Frankish *pikkōn.
Noun
picaillon m (plural picaillons)
- (informal, especially in plural) cash, money
Further reading
- “picaillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.