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dosh en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /dɒʃ/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a combination of dough and cash.

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable) Money.
    • So all that remains is for me to sell this to Eve for as much extra dosh as I can guilt-trip out of her. 2020, Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming: Book 1 of the New Management, A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 154:
    • I'd like to buy a new car, but I'm short on dosh.
    • But left undiscussed is the core question of why Virgin is whoring itself out like this; the law doesn't require it, and passing on letters from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) won't make an ISP more dosh. Or will it? 2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 28 May 2022, retrieved 10 Feb 2009:

Synonyms

bread · moolah · moola · dough · wonga

Translations (23)

es lana (slang: money) · es pasta (slang: money) · fr blé (slang: money) · fr flouze (slang: money) · fr moula (slang: money) · es feria (slang: money) · fr oseille (slang: money) · fi massi (slang: money) · de Knete (slang: money) · sv stålar (slang: money) · fr pèze (slang: money) · fr fric (slang: money) · fr grisbi (slang: money) · de Kies (slang: money) · de Moos (slang: money) · es plata (slang: money) · fr thune (slang: money) · ka მაყუთი (slang: money) · de Zaster (slang: money) · fr pognon (slang: money) · pl hajs (slang: money) · ru бабло (slang: money) · de Kohle (slang: money)