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
Altair	-	Astronomy, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Ignatiy	-	Russian
Natasa	-	Greek
&Thorn;OrbjÖRg	-	Icelandic
Nielsen	['nilsən]
WiesŁAwa	vye-SWAH-vah	Polish