ooftish

From Yiddish אויפֿן טיש‎ (oyfn tish) in the phrase געלט אויפֿן טיש‎ (gelt oyfn tish, “money on the table”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːf.tɪʃ/

ooftish (uncountable)

1. (archaic, British slang) Money.
   • 1889 August 27, Daily News:

     Henry Smith, her coachman, next gave evidence. He said he heard King say he had come after some ooftish.

   • 1897, A. R. Marshall, Pomes^[sic] from the Pink 'Un, page 76:

     And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, / Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.

• See Thesaurus:money

• feathered oof-bird (“large source of money”)
• make the oof-bird walk (“to circulate money”)
• oof (“money”)
• oof-bag (“source of money”)
• oof-bird (“source of money”)
• oofless (“poor”)
• oofy (“rich”)
• pad the oof (“to fold banknotes to appear twice as much”)

• Farmer, John Stephen (1902) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 5, page 107
• “ooftish” (US) / “ooftish” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

• shoofti