foont

English

Etymology 1

Noun

foont (plural foonts)

1. Alternative form of funt (“old Russian unit of weight”)

Etymology 2

Perhaps from French vingt (“twenty”), since a sovereign was worth 20 shillings.

Noun

foont (plural foonts)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (the coin).

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary