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▪ I. rouf|rəʊf|
Also roaf, rofe, roof.
Backslang, esp. among costermongers and criminals, for ‘four’; spec. four shillings, four pounds; a four-year prison sentence.
1851H. Mayhew London Labour I. 23/1 Rouf-yenep, Fourpence. 1882Sydney Slang Dict. 11/2 Roaf Yanneps, four pence. 1950P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 212 All [prison] sentences are referred to in slang... 4 years, a ‘lagging’ or a ‘rofe’ (pron. ‘roaf’). 1957Evening News 12 Nov. 6/6 Newcomers [to Cockney slang] are a ‘rouf’ (4s), ‘a deuce’ ({pstlg}2), and ‘anarf’ (10s). 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 138, I tried to tell them that it had been a business deal, but you know what it's like talking to a moronic coszer, so that was it I got a rouf. 1972K. Royce Miniatures Frame v. 64 From under a pottery sugar jar..protruded two jacks... I found a roof under them.
▪ II. rouf
obs. f. roof n., rough a. |