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Wonga

//ˈwɒŋɡə// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Money. London, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable

    "A whole wodge of wonga."

Etymology

Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani angar (“coal”), from Sanskrit अङ्गार (áṅgāra, “charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hángāras, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥. The English term coal was itself used as a slang term for money in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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