The Big Apple: Mazuma (money slang)

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from September 03, 2019

Mazuma (money slang)

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(Oxford English Dictionary)
mazuma, n.
Etymology: < Yiddish mezumen cash < post-biblical Hebrew mĕzummān prepared (in plural mĕzummānīm ready money, cash (in medieval texts)), passive participle of zumman be prepared < zĕmān appointed time, time.
slang (orig. U.S.).
Money; cash.
1900 T. J. Carry Hebrew Yarns 89/1 Besides his chokes, he also maigs A lot of real ‘mazooma’.
1901 ‘B. Burgundy’ Toothsome Tales 33 It came to pass that he annexed himself to a mammoth mass of mazuma.

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New York City • Banking/Finance/Insurance • Tuesday, September 03, 2019 • Permalink