Money. Short for “bread and honey”.
Bread
Example Sentences
"I need to earn some bread."
"How much bread you got on you?"
Etymology & History
Short for "bread and honey" (rhymes with "money"). Dates from the mid-19th century. By the 1960s, just "bread" for money was adopted into wider British and American slang.
Word Details
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Region
General British
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Era
Victorian
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Language
Mild
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Formality
Slang
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