mazuma
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mazuma
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Yiddish mazume, mezumen, from Mishnaic Hebrew mĕzūmmānīm “ready money, cash,” from mĕzūmmān “prepared,” akin to zĕman “time”; cf. monsoon ( def. ), Sivan ( def. )
Explanation
Mazuma is a slang term that means "money." If you're meeting your friends for lunch and you've got plenty of mazuma in your pocket, you might offer to buy them all milkshakes. The informal word mazuma can be used interchangeably with dough, moolah, Benjamins, or any of numerous other slang terms for "money." Mazuma comes from the Yiddish mezumen, or "cash," and it was first used in English during the late 19th century. If you can't stop thinking about those amazing (expensive) sneakers you saw at the store, you'd better start saving up the mazuma you need to buy them!
Example Sentences
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When they want it, every one of these memoranda must be Johnny-on-the-spot before they can dig up the mazuma.
From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine
They can give orders an' shed mazuma, but, as you say, they're plum babes.
From Smoke Bellew by Jack London
Merritt managed to dig up some mazuma, and we chipped in fifty apiece and became the proud possessors of Big Pete.
From Side Show Studies by Oliver Herford
They need some mazuma to start in with.
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
That fellow was a pen-pusher in a mazuma emporium—I mean a bank clerk.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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