foont
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
foont (plural foonts)
- Alternative form of funt (“old Russian unit of weight”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Perhaps from French vingt (“twenty”), since a sovereign was worth 20 shillings.
Noun[edit]
foont (plural foonts)
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary