siller
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An old word for the metal silver and money made from it
- noun
- /ˈsɪlə/
- Archaic
:
siller
- The Stephen Siller Foundation, which has been doing work on Staten Island, she said, has been using the tool online to access a database of all submitted needs in order to print out addresses and hand them out.
Examples
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He paid for the old book with siller that he had saved up.
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(Corn, Hatlen, Huebner, Siller, & Ryan, 1995, p.v)
Academic text (1996) -
"I bought it with sillers.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Where'd you get sillers?" she asked archly, turning her attention back to the tray.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the market, the old lady offered her jewelry for a handful of sillers.
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The treasure was hidden in a chest filled with gleaming siller coins.
Synonyms
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8.6
An informal word for money that people use
is archaic dialect speech rather than current informal slang
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9.9
An informal name for money someone has to spend
is older dialect usage not the modern casual term
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9.9
Paper money and coins that you can spend
is an old dialect term rather than modern slang
Surface Forms
Etymology
Siller is an old Scots and dialect form of silver, the shiny metal. Because coins were once made of silver, people used siller to mean 'money', so you can remember it by thinking of silver coins.