mazuma
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mazuma
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Yiddish mazume, mezumen, from Mishnaic Hebrew mĕzūmmānīm “ready money, cash,” from mĕzūmmān “prepared,” akin to zĕman “time”; cf. monsoon ( def. ), Sivan ( def. )
Explanation
Mazuma is a slang term that means "money." If you're meeting your friends for lunch and you've got plenty of mazuma in your pocket, you might offer to buy them all milkshakes. The informal word mazuma can be used interchangeably with dough, moolah, Benjamins, or any of numerous other slang terms for "money." Mazuma comes from the Yiddish mezumen, or "cash," and it was first used in English during the late 19th century. If you can't stop thinking about those amazing (expensive) sneakers you saw at the store, you'd better start saving up the mazuma you need to buy them!
Example Sentences
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Gather up this mazuma, Watson, and give His Nibs a receipt for it, as we are both after the coin, only you haven't got the nerve to admit it.
From The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson by Thierry, James Francis
They need some mazuma to start in with.
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
They can give orders an' shed mazuma, but, as you say, they're plum babes.
From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack
You'll have to raise scads of mazuma, son.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod
I hope they've got their mazuma with them, for I've got my cash at last, and I'm on the warpath.
From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Scott, Morgan
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