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Jimmy O'Goblin en · NOUN

Etymology

Rhyming slang for "sovereign".

Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK, slang) A sovereign coin; a pound.
    • He had won five Jimmy-o-goblins at ten to three at Chester. 1934, Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust:

Forms

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Jimmy O'Goblins Number=Plur lexicographic
Jimmy-o-goblin alternative lexicographic
jimmy-o-goblin alternative lexicographic
jimmy o' goblin alternative lexicographic
Jemmy O'Goblin alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

o'goblin · jimmy · jim · goblin