graffiti. 1  plural of graffito. ( 2 used with a plural verb) markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like: These graffiti are evidence of the neighborhood's decline.
In the realm of money in a marriage, this could mean that the husband has sole control over the checkbook, pays all the bills, and sees to the family savings and investing as well as giving, while at the same time consulting his wife and getting her input on financial decisions.
Whether it's a wife bonus, a child's allowance, or a husband's personal spending money, we struggle to identify moneys that match our ideas of intimate relationships. The bonus has elicited such response because it imports disquieting Wall Street vocabulary into the household.