Definitions
Etymologies
- From Twi pέsεwa ("penny, penny's worth of gold dust") (Wiktionary)
- From Akan pésewabo, dark blue seed of a plant, formerly used as the smallest gold weight. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The market ladies would have to learn to use the pesewa again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pesewa’.
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Money
The various names for "money" have been scattered about the world in various countries and are now coming together at last in this hopefully vast list.
grosze, money, cash, dough, euro, grosz, zloty, toman, pood, pelf, krone, pesewa and 22 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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