conscience money

Money paid to another in an attempt to alleviate the payer's guilty conscience. I felt so badly about breaking my mom's lamp that I eventually gave her conscience money, in the hopes that it would make me feel better.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
KateŘIna	-	Czech
Blagoy	-	Bulgarian
Davida	-	English (Rare)
Ab	[æb]
Aukusti	OW-koos-tee	Finnish
Jacobine	yah-ko-BEE-nə (Dutch)	Norwegian, Danish, Dutch