shilling

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: shil‧ling

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill +‎ -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.

shilling (plural shillings)

1. (historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

     A great bargain also had been […] the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

2. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
3. (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
4. (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
5. (historical) Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.
   • 1909, United States Bureau of the Mint, “Annual Report of the Director of the Mint”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], page 281:

     The smaller silver coins of Europe, such as the solidus or German shilling, the mark, and others never found their way east in any quantity on account of their small size and value.

6. (historical) Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Danemark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.
   • 2013, Selena Axelro Winsnes, A Danish Jew in West Africa: Wulff Joseph Wulff, Biography and Letters 1836-1842, pages 186-187:

     And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling.

Abbreviations

• (in UK, etc): s. or s or / (solidus)
• (in Kenya): Ksh; (in Somalia) So. Sh.; (in Tanzania) TSh; (in Uganda) UGS

In East Africa, the names of the currencies usually use the proper noun for the country, not its adjectival form: "Kenya shilling", "Tanzania shilling", etc. Amounts are written with a solidus, probably from the UK usage: "2/50" is 2 shillings, 50 cents (not pence); 30 shillings only is written "30/=".

• (Britain, Ireland, Australia, East Africa): bob, generalise, gen, hog, Abraham's willing (archaic)
• (Australia): deener

• Sranan Tongo: sren

• Currencies of the world

See shill.

shilling

1. present participle and gerund of shill

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.liŋ/

shilling m (plural shillings)

1. shilling (old UK coin)

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

shilling

1. alternative form of schilling

Borrowed from English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

shilling m (definite singular shillingen, indefinite plural shilling, definite plural shillingene)

1. (numismatics, also historical) a shilling

• “shilling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “shilling” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

3=shilling
4=shillingane

shilling m (plural shillingen)

1. (historical, numismatics) a shilling
2. a shilling: the currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

• “shilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “shilling”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

shilling c

1. (historical) a shilling (English coin)
2. shilling (currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda)

• skilling

• shilling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• shilling in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• shilling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)