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deaner; deener; dener; diener
noun
a shilling UK, 1857
Until decimalisation in 1971; probably from denier (a French coin, the twelfth part of a sou). After the introduction of decimal currency in Australia in 1966, it came to mean a ten cent piece, or its value, a similar coin with about the same comparative value; dying out from the 1980s, now seldom heard.- An’ while yez are fillin’ up, Bill’s goin’ round collectin’ subs. Ten deaners a head. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 118, 1957
- “I’ll bet a deener you wouldn’t go pickin’ on young Temple the way y’hammer jokers like me”, he said darkly — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 98, 1961
- Whatever the complaint is, you can lay an even deener Sloppy has had it. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 118, 1962
- An’ that redhead up there gives me three bob. Three lousy little deaners sittin’ there in me hand. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), Gone Fishin, p. 124, 1985
- He [Prime Minister Keating] said his income tax cuts were designed to put some extra deeners in the pocket of the bloke who was willing to get off his backside and earn a few extra bucks. — Sun Herald, p. 15, 16 June 1985
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 171, 2002
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