picaillon

French

Etymology

From Provençal piquar, from Vulgar Latin *pikkāre (compare Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish picar), itself either from an onomatopoetic root *pikk- (cf. also Latin picus, whence French pic), or alternatively, from Frankish *pikkōn.

Noun

picaillon m (plural picaillons)

1. (informal, especially in plural) cash, money

Further reading

• “picaillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.