tucker money
noun [mass noun] Australian informal, dated
A very small income or very small sum of money: I just work here for tucker money...
- The old pick-and-shovel, dynamite and dry-blowing methods were no longer yielding more than "tucker money" at the gold-fields.
- We all stay with Mother an' Father, him go work an' perhaps bring back tucker money.
- Some of them are just making tucker money.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from the notion that the sum is enough to buy food only.
- conoidal
- conquer
- conquerable
- conqueror
- conquest
- conquistador
- Conrad, Joseph
- Conrad, Pete
- con rod
- Conroe
- Cons.
- consanguine
- consanguineous
- consanguinity
- conscience
- conscience clause
- conscienced
- conscience issue
- conscienceless
- consciencely
- conscience money
- conscience-proof
- conscience-stricken
- conscience vote
- conscience-wise