dosh

English

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a combination of dough and cash.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɒʃ/
Rhymes: -ɒʃ
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

dosh (uncountable)

(UK, Australia, slang) Money.
I'd like to buy a new car, but I'm short on dosh.
- 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:
  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.

Synonyms

Translations

slang: money

Finnish: massi (fi)
French: fric (fr) m, pognon (fr) m, thune (fr) m, moula (fr) f, blé (fr) m, oseille (fr) f, pèze (fr) m, flouze (fr) f, grisbi (fr) m, fric (fr) m
Georgian: მაყუთი (maq̇uti)
German: Zaster (de) m, Kies (de) m, Kohle (de) f, Knete (de) f, Moos (de) n
Polish: hajs (pl) m
Russian: бабло (ru) n (bablo)
Spanish: pasta (es) f (Spain), plata (es) f (Latin America), lana (es) (Mexico), feria (es) f (Northern Mexico)
Swedish: stålar (sv) c pl

Anagrams

dohs, hods, shod

Romani

Adjective

dosh

guilty
Wo sas dosh.
He was guilty.
wrong
Dosh san.
You are wrong.

Noun

dosh f

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