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plural finnufs
(UK, slang, archaic) A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds. quotations
Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129
"Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"
1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark, page 216