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語源

From Yiddish פֿינף‎ (finf, “five”). Doublet of five, pimp, and fin.

名詞

finnuf (複数形 finnufs)

1. (Britain, slang, archaic) A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
   • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)

     Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.

   • 1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark (page 216)

     "Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"

アナグラム

• nuffin