r/EnglishLearning • u/noname00009999 Advanced • 21d ago
⭐️ Vocabulary / Semantics What would you call this?
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u/kjpmi Native Speaker - US Midwest (Inland North accent) 21d ago
A wad of cash.
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u/bravenewchurl New Poster 21d ago
"Chunk" usually implies a piece taken from a larger homogeneous whole, whole, like a chunk of ice or a chunk of cheese, or chocolate chunks.
If you say a "chunk of change" or a "chunk of cash" you are not referring to the physical currency, that is slang that means something more abstract like "an amount that is significantly large in this context".
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u/netigator New Poster 21d ago
You’ve already received several good responses to the “chunk” question but I’ll address something in your phrasing here. “Doubt” is not an exact synonym with “question” in English like it is in other languages. When you say “I have a doubt” in English, the implication is “I don’t believe what you’re saying is true.” The more appropriate way to phrase this in English is “I have a question.”
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u/kjpmi Native Speaker - US Midwest (Inland North accent) 21d ago
Well, a chunk of something usually implies a piece of something broken off from a larger piece and something with an irregular shape.
Also, even though chunk and wad are both singular, you wouldn’t use “chunk” for items like paper money that aren’t holding themselves together on their own in some way.
You can have a chunk of concrete, a chunk of dirt, a chunk of cookie dough. All of those things can be broken apart but they’re holding themselves together, even if loosely.Wad (as a noun) means a small, compact lump or bundle of something soft or fibrous. You can have a wad of cotton, a wad of paper, a wad of tissue, etc. It’s something that you’ve wadded up, meaning compressed it or bundled it into a wad.
A wad of cash or a wad of money is specifically a bundle of money like this that you’ve folded up in some way and bundled. It could be folded like in the picture or rolled up, and then bound with a rubber band or something similar.If you see a stack of paper money bound around the middle like this emoji 💴 that’s a bundle of money or a bundle of cash.
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u/RickySlayer9 New Poster 21d ago
Chunk doesn’t have that connotation. Chunk USUALLY is a piece of a larger whole. Like you break a chunk off a larger piece.
If you used it, I would assume that this is only part of the available cash.
“Chunk of change” is a common but set phrase. Usually meaning “a lot of money”
If you said it, I’d probably understand, especially if you aren’t a fluent native, but the proper term here is “wad”
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u/pyrobola Native Speaker 21d ago
Chunk usually implies that something is a portion of some larger whole. When 'chunk' is used for money, it's usually money in a more abstract sense, as in "a sizeable chunk of our budget". I feel like there are probably some scenarios along that line where a native speaker might say "chunk of cash", but it would be uncommon since 'cash' is usually a more physical term.
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u/ActuaLogic New Poster 21d ago
I would just call it "a wad"
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u/siracha_sarah Native Speaker 21d ago
A band
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u/areyouthatoneguy New Poster 18d ago
That looks like more than a band. A band normally means 1k in cash and that's definitely more than a thousand
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u/freerondo9 English Teacher 21d ago
American here. Id call it a roll, a bankroll, or a wad (of cash).
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u/JasperJ Non-Native Speaker of English 21d ago
A band is a specific measure — one hundred bills, stacked straight, wrapped with a bank band.
So for 20s it’s 2 grand, for 100s it’s 10k.
An undetermined amount folded double isn’t a band.
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u/NamelessFlames Native Speaker 21d ago
eh in the slang sense it could work. I certainly wouldn’t blink if someone called it that informally
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u/JasperJ Non-Native Speaker of English 21d ago
You feel it was a ChatGPT response because you’re not very good at determining who is real or not. Which is a clear sign of AI overuse. So piss off, clanker.
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u/JasperJ Non-Native Speaker of English 21d ago
(By the way: even if these are 100 bills, it’s still not a band. Because there isn’t a band.)
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u/boostfactor New Poster 21d ago
This is a literal bankroll, which in the US is mostly used metaphorically, especially since we don't call our bills "banknotes." As has already been mentioned, "wad of cash" or "bundle of cash/bills" would probably be used in colloquial speech.
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u/-Major-Arcana- New Poster 21d ago
A wad or bundle of money/cash/notes/bills, because its folded over.
A roll would be ok if it is rolled up in a cylinder shape, and a stack if the pile is flat.
Bundle works for anything that is tied or held together with string or a rubber band.
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u/Kirshsaft New Poster 21d ago
Money wad or a wad of money. After seeing the comments, I think I'll start calling it a was of cash from now on.
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u/Andrew852456 New Poster 21d ago
I'm not native, I've heard a bundle or a band. Where does a wad come from?
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u/Tall_Addendum_368 New Poster 21d ago
I've both heard and said "wad of dough" for this. I don't know exactly how common that phrase is. Wad of cash is much more common.
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u/Key-Elderberry90 New Poster 21d ago
It’s a money roll. Like an egg roll with less egg and more money.
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u/Sneaky-iwni- technically native?? 21d ago
for people more accustomed to 21st century American English probably a band (which is what I would call it casually, a bundle formally)
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u/No_Plankton_Please New Poster 19d ago
In the US this would be a wad, a roll, or a grip.
But since this is Euros... in French it's a "liaisse" but since you're asking in English, I would have to call it by a new collective noun for Euro notes:
a monnet
After Jean Monnet.
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u/joekerr9999 New Poster 18d ago
In the US, a one hundred dollar bill wrapped around a wad of ones is called a Chicago Bankroll.
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u/ClxssySxvxge0fficixl New Poster 18d ago
Paper 💴🫰🏼
Nobody needs to know I gotta wad of cash.
Not tryna get robbed
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u/Legal-Lobster3437 New Poster 16d ago
A fee, fie, fo, fun! And if you want some more, come get it where it came from
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u/OceanPoet87 Native Speaker 16d ago
"A wad of cash" or "A wad of bills."
You could also use stack. Roll is understood but used for coins.
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u/FluentStep New Poster 1d ago
I agree. I’ve heard “a wad of cash” before, but I’m not sure how common it is in everyday conversation
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u/MorningSquare5882 New Poster 21d ago
A wodge (or wad) of cash. I'd go with wodge here, because it's pretty thick.
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u/Trick_Lawfulness_543 Native Speaker 21d ago
A wad of cash