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
Farooq	-	Arabic
Ivet	-	Bulgarian
Jacinda	-	English (Rare)
Rajkumari	-	Indian, Hindi
Kibwe	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Catharine	['kæθərin]