madza caroon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence. UK,obsolete,slang
    — Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

词形变化

madza caroons plural

词源

A corruption of the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”).
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