Slang and cant in Jerome K. Jerome's works

by Olof E. Bosson

bob, tanner, quid

»A rise of two bob a week.» (T. T. T. 156. 18.)

Uneducated young man.

»—a bob or a tanner as the case might be.» (T. T. T. 125. 2.)

A waiter.

»His tie must have cost fifty quid.» (T. T. T. 131. 21.)

The same.

Terms for, respectively, shilling, sixpence, and sovereign. The expressions are vulgar, no doubt, but in common use among all classes—among the more educated and refined only in intimate talk, of course.