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   ackers

   /ˈakəz/

   plural

   • 1. money: informal British "what you get for your ackers is two CDs"

   Word Origin 1930s (originally used by British troops in Egypt as a name for the piastre): probably an alteration of Arabic fakka ‘small change, coins’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › ackersAckers Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Sep 10, 2008 · The meaning of ACKERS is cash, money. How to use ackers in a sentence.

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   Sep 2, 2024 · From Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump to navigation Jump to search. See also: Ackers. Contents. 1 English. 1.1 Pronunciation; 1.2 Etymology 1. 1.2.1 Noun ...

4. english.stackexchange.com › questions › 541909How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?

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   Jul 27, 2020 · 'Acker' in the nineteenth century. Whether acker in the sense of "friend or mate" is Somerset-specific or not, the term probably arose within the past 100 years. William Holloway, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms (1840) has nothing for acker in the relevant sense, nor does James Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1852) or Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and ...

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   Ackers definition: (UK, slang) Money. . Find Similar Words Find similar words to ackers using the buttons below.

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   acker, n.¹ meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

7. greensdictofslang.com › entry › zxughfqacker, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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   acker n. 1 also akker [Arab. akka, one piastre; imported by returning British soldiers post-WWI] (orig. milit.) money, whether change or notes; often found in pl.; thus ackerage, the bill.

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   What does Ackers mean?

   • Get Word of the Day daily email! Can you solve 4 words at once? Pick the best words! We show you the art, you guess the literary work.... The meaning of ACKERS is cash, money. How to use ackers in a sentence.

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   Is Acker a slang word?

   • Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, eighth edition (1984) actually lists an instance of "ackers" that seem to follow this pattern—although in this case the term doesn't carry the meaning "friend or mate": ackers.

   How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?

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   Where did the word 'Acker' come from?

   • So acker [s] has emerged as a slang term derived from activity (in England), from academic (in Australia), and from acne (in Australia). If acker in the sense of "friend or mate" followed this same pattern, what word might it have come from? The choices aren't great, but a few aren't beyond the pale: accompanist, accomplice, acolyte, acquaintance.

   How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?

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   Was Acker a 'friend or mate'?

   • The absence of any visible nineteenth-century traces of acker as "friend or mate" puts a crimp in any theory that purports to derive it from an Old English predecessor. 'Acker' as an Oxford -er coinage

   How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?

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   Where did the word 'Macker' come from?

   • According to Wikipedia, macker is derived (or closely related) to Old English gemæcca. So I'd guess English borrowed macker from German and it became widespread. Then later on it lost the m due to Apheresis and became acker with the same meaning (friend, companion).

   How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?

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   When was Acker first used?

   • The earliest known use of the noun acker is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for acker is from 1440, in Promptorium Parvulorum. acker is perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: eagre n.

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9. www.collinsdictionary.com › english › ackerACKER definition in American English - Collins Online Dictionary

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