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Noun: wampum wómpum Usage: N. Amer
- Informal term for money
- boodle, bread, cabbage [US], clams [US], dinero [N. Amer], dough, gelt, kale [US], lettuce [US], lolly [Brit], lucre, loot, moolah [N. Amer], pelf [archaic], scratch, shekels, simoleons [US], sugar, moola [N. Amer], dosh [Brit] - Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
- peag, wampumpeag
Derived forms: wampums Type of: beads, money, string of beads Encyclopedia: Wampum Wampum, PA Wampum, Pennsylvania |