Brittish slang

[Juskimo]

Ok, so I am vaguely farmiliar with some slang, but I keep running into the term Dosh. I understand the meaning, as it usually comes out like this "Jus, you twaat, you cost me fcking dosh".

Im just curious as to where the term originated.

-Jus

[Molina]

[SideSwipe]

From http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_boar ... s/888.html


DOSH - "n British. Money. This is a working-class term from the early 1950s which was falling out of use in the 1960s, but which, like many similar words (bunce, loot, lolly, etc.) was revived in the money-conscious late 1980s. It is a favourite with alternative comedians and 'professional cockneys.' The original would seem logically to be the old African colonial term 'dash,' denoting a tip or bribe, but other authorities claim that it is influenced by 'doss,' in the sense of the price of a bed (for the night)." From "Dictionary of Contemporary Slang" by Tony Thorne (Pantheon Books, New York, 1990).

[Felonius_Monk]