1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Money. A girl’s private parts,
commonly applied to little children: as: Take care, Miss, or you
will show your money.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Eggs for money, subs. phr. (old).—An excuse; a trick.
1604. Shakspeare, Winter’s Tale, i. 2. Mine honest friend, Will you
take eggs for money.
Hard-money, subs. (colloquial).—Coin. Soft money = notes.
1848. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st Ser. vi. I du believe hard coin
the stuff, For ’lectioneers to spout on; The people’s ’ollers soft
enough. To make hard money out on.
Money makes the mare to go. See Mare.
Pot of money, subs. phr. (common).—A large amount.
Money-bags, subs. (common).—A miser; a usurer; a man of means.
Money-box (Maker, or spinner). The female pudendum. For synonyms see
Monosyllable.
Money-dropper, subs. (thieves’).—A swindler who lets money drop before
some ‘flat’, and, offering to share it with him, passes off counterfeit
coin in return for good ‘change’.
1748. Smollett, Roderick Random, A rascally money-dropper.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Money-grubber, subs. (colloquial).—A miser.
Mongrel, subs. (old).—See quot. 1785.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Mongrel, a hanger on amongst
cheats, a spunger; also a child, whose father and mother are of
different countries.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Moniker. See Monarch.
Monk, subs. (common).—1. A term of contempt.
2. (printers’).—An over-inked spot in a printed sheet; a dark patch; a
blackened or wasted impression. See Friar.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1868. Brewer, Phrase and Fable, s.v. Monk. Caxton set up his
printing press in the scriptorium of Westminster Abbey; and the
associations of this place gave rise to the slang expressions monk
and friar for black and white defects.
Monkery, subs. (tramps’).—1. The country; daisyville (q.v.).
1819. Vaux, Memoirs, s.v.
1820. Egan, Boxiana, iii. 18. Having a snooze and blowing a long
one in the monkery.
1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue (3rd. ed.), s.v.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 266. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘I don’t know
what this ere monkry will come to, after a bit.’
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, v. ‘Do you belong to the start or the
monkery?’ they asked. ‘London,’ says I. Ibid. 58. The boss had
training quarters in the monkery for racers and hunters.