Synonyms for mazuma

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muh-zoo-muh

Phonetic Transcription : məˈzu mə

Définition of mazuma

Origin : slang for "money," 1894, from Yiddish, from Mishnaic Hebrew mezumman "designated, fixed, appointed," used in Medieval Hebrew in sense of "cash" (cf. slang the needful "money"), from Akkad. simanu "appointed time." It figured in "People v. Stokes," case argued before Supreme Court of California (1894), which cites newspaper coverage of an earlier trial mentioning "Colonel Mazuma":
It appears that the term "Colonel Mazuma" not only does not indicate some gentleman with a military title, but it does not even refer to a person at all. We fail to find the term mentioned by our lexicographers, but understand it to be a modern provincialism, probably emanating from the daily press, and used when referring to the corrupt application of money in the accomplishment of certain ends. If these jurors understood this term with the signification thus attached to it, it of itself furnished ample material to demand a retrial of the case. ["Pacific Reporter," vol. 37]

As in bread : noun money

Example sentences :

I think you're out of mazuma, and that's why I'm doing this.
Extract from : « The Fiction Factory » by John Milton Edwards

When they want it, every one of these memoranda must be Johnny-on-the-spot before they can dig up the mazuma.
Extract from : « Bucky O'Connor » by William MacLeod Raine

All his life hes had to pinch, and now he hangs on to the mazuma with a deathlike grip.
Extract from : « The New Boys at Oakdale » by Morgan Scott

But don't forget to burn a few punk sticks in the joss house to the great god Mazuma from time to time.
Extract from : « The Four Million » by O. Henry

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