also finnip, finnuf, finnif, finnie, finn, or fin, subs. (thieves’).—A five-pound note or FLIMSY (q.v.). [A Yiddish pronunciation of German fünf = five.] Also FINNUP-READY (ready = money). In America FINNUP = a five dollar bill. DOUBLE FINNUP = a ten pound note.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. III., p. 396. The notes were all FINNIES (£5 notes), and a good imitation.
1857. SNOWDEN, Magistrates Assistant, 3rd ed., p. 444. Five-pound notes, FINNIPS, ten-pound notes, DOUBLE FINNIPS.
1883. J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail. When we got into the rattler they showed me the pass. Yes, there it was, fifty quids in DOUBLE FINNS.
