What does yenom mean?
Yenom means (obsolete, costermongers) Money.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, costermongers) Money.
My tailor serves you well, from a perger to a swell, / At Groves's you're safe to make a sure pitch, / For ready yenom down, there ain't a shop in town, / Can lick Groves in The Cut as well as Shoreditch.
“Kool retfa the posh” he’d call to Mum, “I’m going to ekat the yenom to the kaynab” Somewhere Dad had learnt Backslang and this was the preferred medium of communication between him and Mum when there were customers in the shop. What he had just said was, “Look after the shop, I’m taking the money to the bank”
Use yenom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yenom means (obsolete, costermongers) Money.
Common synonyms include money.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My tailor serves you well, from a perger to a swell, / At Groves's you're safe to make a sure pitch, / For ready yenom down, there ain't a shop in town, / Can lick Groves in The Cut as well as Shoreditch.
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