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▪ I. tenner colloq.|ˈtɛnə(r)|
[f. ten + -er1.]
A term applied to a number or amount of ten; spec. a. A ten-pound note; in U.S. a ten-dollar bill.
1845Ainsworth's Mag. VIII. 121 The races..he went to as a matter of course, though..he never betted at them beyond a ‘tenner’. 1848Sessions Papers 7 Mar. 847 ‘I was concerned in that affair of Covill's, for which I had a tenner out.’.. ‘Oh, did they give you 10l?’.. I understood by a tenner, a 10l.-note. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xix, ‘No money?’ ‘Not much; perhaps a tenner.’ 1884G. Allen Philistia III. 218, I had in my purse..five tenners—Bank of England ten-pound notes, you know. 1887Black Sabina Zembra xxi. 208 You might make the fiver a tenner. 1893Saltus Madam Sapphira xvi, At the rate of eight dollars a column and a tenner for the ‘beat’.
b. A period of ten years.
1866Morn. Star 19 Dec., I will tell the truth, or else I shall get a ‘tenner’ (ten years' penal servitude). 1904Daily News 7 Nov. 9 [He] has been chief magistrate..for the past nine years uninterruptedly, and..the Corporation has just asked him to extend it and make a ‘tenner’ of it.
▪ II. tenner
obs. form of tenor; var. tandour. |