gonce

gonce (uncountable)

1. (Australia, slang, obsolete) Money.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money

   • 1898 July 2, W[illiam] T[homas] Goodge, “The Tugs of Simpsonville”, in The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation From "The Bulletin", Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Company, published 1902, page 194:

     If you guess how many peas is there you get five blanky pounds! / Fair? and square! / And the nearest guess will get the gonce as sure as you are there!

• “gonce n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

• congé, conge, cogen, Genco, genco

From Old French gons, gonz, gont (whence modern French gond), from Latin gomphus, from Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos), from Proto-Hellenic *gómpʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos. First attested in early 15th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡonθe/ [ˈɡõn̟.θe] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡonse/ [ˈɡõn.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -onθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -onse (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: gon‧ce

gonce m (plural gonces)

1. hinge
2. (anatomy) articulation, joint

• “gonce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “gonce”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “gozne”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 184-185