dosh

English

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a combination of dough and cash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɒʃ/

  Rhymes: -ɒʃ

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

dosh (uncountable)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, 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

• bread
• dough
• moola, moolah
• wonga

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

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Adjective

dosh

1. guilty

   Wo sas dosh.

   He was guilty.

2. wrong

   Dosh san.

   You are wrong.

Noun

dosh f

1. guilty
2. blame
3. fault