gonce
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gonce (uncountable)
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) Money.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
- 1898 July 2, W[illiam] T[homas] Goodge, “The Tugs of Simpsonville”, in The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation From "The Bulletin", Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Company, published 1902, page 194:
- If you guess how many peas is there you get five blanky pounds! / Fair? and square! / And the nearest guess will get the gonce as sure as you are there!
References
[edit]- “gonce n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present