World-Built World: ooftish

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ooftish

PRONUNCIATION: (OOF-tish) 

MEANING: noun: Money or cash.

ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish gelt afn tish (money on the table), from gelt (money) + af (on) + tish (table). Earliest documented use: 1877.

USAGE: “It’s no good scrapping with your governor, because he’s got the ooftish.”
William Somerset Maugham; Mrs. Craddock; William Heinemann; 1902.

(Wordsmith.org)

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