picaillon

French

Etymology

From Provençal piquar, from Vulgar Latin *pikkāre (compare Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish picar), itself either from an onomatopoetic root *pikk- (cf. also Latin picus, whence French pic), or alternatively, from Frankish *pikkōn.

Noun

picaillon m (plural picaillons)

(informal, especially in plural) cash, money

Further reading

“picaillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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