finnif

English

Noun

finnif (plural finnifs)

1. Alternative form of finif
   • 1884, George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat, or Patty Cannon's Times, Harper & Brothers, p. 182 (Google preview):

     Five of them finniffs makes a quarter of a hundred dollars.

   • 1969, Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down:

     Thank you gentlemen, and here is ... some finnifs for your trouble.

   • 2013, Kevin Baker, The Big Crowd, →ISBN, page 113:

     "You bet much on the fights, Mr. Boyle?" . . .
     "Oh, I dunno. A finniff here, a deuce there."