loaver

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

loaver (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Money.
    • 1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 472:
      […] and then they don't mind tipping the loaver (money) […]

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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