Heard on "Judge Mathis": [Inz] "money"

[W Brewer]

<<<A gigolo . . . can't mount . . . his patron . . .  you want to  get you
some more of them _[Inz]_ from her!>>>
The gentleman is simply uncomfortable discussing the ins & out of his craft
in the presence of the patron. (Shouldn't that be matron?)


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Saw a sign once on a permanent rummage sale along US25 in southern
> Tennessee that read "Odds n Inns."
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> Herb
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> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > A gigolo being for the recovery of money is explaining to JM that he
> can't
> > mount a proper defense for fear of embarrassing his patron.
> >
> > The Judge replies to the effect that
> >
> > "I know you don't want to be doing nothing like that, 'cause you want to
> be
> > able to go back and get you some more of them _[Inz]_ from her!"
> >
> > I've heard [Inz} used to mean "money" since I was a child. But, for the
> > obvious reason of the problem of slang compounded by dialect, I have no
> > idea whether the word is "ends" or "ins," since semantic development is
> > nugatory in either case. Money is the means to any _end. Money gets you
> > _in_. At the _end_ of a job, you get money. Money _in_ your pocket. The
> > means are your_ends_. With _ins_ you don't worry about being on the outs.
> >
> > UD has both _ends_ and _ins_ as "money." Quelle surprise! One poster
> > asserts "< make ends (meet)."
> >
> > As good a WAG as any other.
> >
> > This was one of the few times that I've found anything ancient in UD
> that's
> > also relatively rare, to the extent that I was surprised Mathis used
> [inz],
> > he being much younger than I and it was never as hip as, e.g. _bread_.
> >
> > Google has nothing old enough to provide evidence for an etymology.
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