soft flimsy

From soft +‎ flimsy (noun).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒft ˈflɪmzi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔft ˈflɪmzi/, (cot–caught merger) /sɑft-/
• Rhymes: -ɪmzi
• Hyphenation: soft flim‧sy

soft flimsy (plural soft flimsies)

1. (slang, obsolete) A counterfeit banknote.

• Flimsy alone is slang for a banknote, without any implication of counterfeiting.

• [John Camden Hotten] (1859) “SOFT FLIMSY”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, […], London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC.