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
Achilles	ə-KIL-eez (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Lala	-	Bulgarian
Dwight	[dwait]
JØRg	-	Danish, Norwegian
Stacy	STAY-see	English
Shan	SHAN	Welsh