noun General Slang

Yenom

/ˈjɛnɒm/ · noun · slang

Cockney back-slang for 'money' — the day's takings, said backwards.

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Definitions

1

A day's earnings or profit from the barrow.

“Bad weather, no crowds, and barely any yenom to show for it.”
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2

Used in coded talk so traders could discuss who had cash, who was short, and what a thing truly cost, all in front of customers.

“He's flush with yenom today — ask top price, he'll pay it.”
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3

Money in general. From 'money' reversed to 'yenom', the umbrella back-slang term for cash, takings and wealth, sitting above the specific coins yennep and dunop.

“Show me the yenom first, then you can have the goods.”
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Yenom In A Sentence

All that shouting and not enough yenom to cover the pitch fee.
Keep your yenom close down here, the dips work the crowd.
She turned a barrow of bruised pears into honest yenom by noon.

Origin & Usage

Cockney costermonger back-slang of the 1840s ('money' reversed), the general money term in the coded financial vocabulary recorded by Mayhew (1851) and Hotten (1859).

Variants yennom
Tags #cockney#back-slang#british#uk#money

People Also Ask

What does yenom mean?

It means money — 'money' spelled backwards in Cockney back-slang.

How is yenom different from yennep and dunop?

Yenom is money in general; yennep is specifically a penny and dunop a pound. Yenom is the catch-all.

Where did yenom come from?

From the back-slang of 1830s–40s London street sellers, documented by Mayhew and Hotten in the mid-1800s.

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