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a shilling (1/-), from the mid-1800s, also transferred later to the decimal equivalent 5p piece, from the same roots that produced the 'deaner' shilling slang and variations, i.e., Roman denarius and then through other European dinar coins and variations. As with deanar the pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound.
a shilling (1/-), from the mid-1800s, derived from association with the many European dinar coins and similar, and derived in turn and associated with the Roman denarius coin which formed the basis of many European currencies and their names. The pronunciation emphasis tends to be on the long second syllable 'aah' sound. The expression is interpreted into Australian and New Zealand money slang as deener, again meaning shilling.
 A shilling. (Etymologially descended from the Dinarious, or ancient silver penny of Britain...)
Nellie Deans is London Cockney rhyming slang for green vegetables (greens).
1½d (one and a half old pennies) - this lovely expression (thanks Dean) did not survive decimalisation, despite there being new decimal half-pence coins. In fact the term was obsolete before 1971 decimalisation when the old ha'penny (½d) was removed from the currency in 1969.
two shillings (2/-) or two pounds or twenty pounds - probably from the French bis, meaning twice, which suggests usage is older than the 1900s first recorded and referenced by dictionary sources. Bice could also occur in conjunction with other shilling slang, where the word bice assumes the meaning 'two', as in 'a bice of deaners', pronounced 'bicerdeaners', and with other money slang, for example bice of tenners, pronounced 'bicertenners', meaning twenty pounds.
Deaner is British slang for a five penny piece. Deaner was British slang for a shilling.
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Nellie Dean is London Cockney rhyming slang for the green snooker ball. Nellie Dean is London Cockney rhyming slang for a male homosexual (queen).
Old Nellie (based on Nellie Dean) is British slang for an older male homosexual.
(dene) a valley
Riverina is London Cockney rhyming slang for five pence (deana). Riverina was London Cockney rhyming slang for a shilling (deana).
Describing an ugly person. As in "I could never fancy that Dean. 'e's goppin', 'im!".
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Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
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The office of a dean.
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The residence of a dean.
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of Deanery
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The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
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A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
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Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.
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An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
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The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
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An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
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An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
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A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
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The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
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The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
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A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
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A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
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The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
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Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.
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