What it means
Dosh means money, plain and simple. Cash, your wages, what’s in your account, the bits that keep the week stitched together. It’s a very British, everyday kind of word, warm and unfussy, the sort of thing you’d say in a pub, at the till, or when you’re moaning that payday still feels miles off.
Usage examples
"Right, I am a bit short on dosh this month, we doing the cheap pub or what?"
"I have not got the dosh for a holiday this year, so it is a week in a tent in Wales again."
"He made a load of dosh flipping old furniture, now he acts like he invented the idea."
"I’d come out tonight, but I’m properly low on dosh till Friday."
"She must be making decent dosh now, she’s stopped pretending Tesco meal deals are a personality."
Where it comes from
Dosh turns up in British English from the early 20th century as slang for money. The exact root is disputed, so the trail before that isn’t nailed down with certainty. What is clear is that it settled fast into working everyday speech in the UK and still carries that plain, no-fancy-nonsense feel.
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