WAGES
ADJECTIVES
► IN GOOD ADDLE earning good wages → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IN THE MONEY receiving good wages or a large salary → c1934 sl.
NOUNS
► ADDLINGS wages, earnings; savings → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BATTY workmen’s wages, perquisites → 1898 sl. (Bk.)
► BENEFIT wages paid in kind → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BIG MONEY high wages or salary → 1888 orig. US
► BIG PAY high wages or salary → 1915 US
► DAILY one’s wages → 1900s sl.
► DARK MONEY extra wages paid for night work → 1970 UK railwaymen’s sl.
► DARK TIME extra wages paid for night work → 1970 UK railwaymen’s sl.
► DAY-TALE WAGES wages paid by the day → 1560
► D FOR DUNCE money or goods earned on top of wages → 20C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘bunce’
► EDDLINS ► ETTLINS wages, earnings → 1887 Sc.
► FANGINGS wages, earnings, takings → 1846 Eng. dial.
► FEES wages → c1400 obs. exc. Sc.
► GAGES wages → 1562 Sc. obs.
► GREENGAGES wages → 1931 rhyming sl.
► HANGMANS WAGES money paid beforehand for work → 19C Eng. dial.
► ONCES wages → L19 sl.
► PARKERING NINTY wages → M19 sl.
► POLE-AXING the reducing of wages to the point of starvation → 1887 printers’ sl., obs.
► PREST wages or payment in advance; money paid on account to enable a person to proceed with an undertaking → 1359 hist.
► PRICE wages, money paid as the equivalent of labour → a1382 obs.
► RAISE an increase in wages or salary → L19 sl.
► ROCK OF AGES wages → 1937 rhyming sl.
► SAME OLD THREE AND FOUR a weekly wage, 6 days at 3 shillings and 4 pence a day gives £1 for a 6-day week → L19 sl.
► SATURDAY NIGHT weekly wages, pay, money for marketing → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SCRAN wages, earnings → 1869 Eng. dial.
► SCREW wages → 1858 sl.
► SOULDIE pay, salary, wages → 1474 obs.
► STAKE wages → 1853 sl.
► SUB an advance payment of wages or salary → 1866 Brit. sl.
► TAKE wages → 1990s sl.
► TIME wages due, esp. at the cessation of employment → 1887 Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DAILY-BREAD a wage-earner; the working head of the family → c1890 colloq.
► WAGES-FELLOW a person who receives wages → 1641 obs.
► WAGE-SLAVE a person dependent on wages or a salary for a livelihood → 1886
► WAGES-MAN a man who works for wages → 1888 Aust.
► WAGE-WORKER a person who receives wages → 1888
VERBS
► BATE to reduce a workman’s wages; esp. to make deduction on account of careless work, etc. → 1869 Eng. dial.
► BREAK to lower wages → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► EAGLE FLY to pay wages → 1950s African-American sl.
► FANG to earn as wages → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► KNOCK OUT to earn as wages → 1871 sl.
► SCRAWL to live on uncertain wages → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SUB to pay someone a ‘sub’, or advance on wages or salary → 1874 Brit. sl.
► WAGE to pay wages to → 1393 obs.
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