Adam and Eve — believe apples and pears — stairs Aris (short for Aristotle) — bottle or bottle and glass-'arse' ball of chalk — walk barnet (short for Barnet Fair) — hair Barney Rubble — trouble bees and honey — money) bird (short for bird lime) — time (in prison) boat race — face boracic (short for boracic lint) — skint bottle (short for bottle and glass) — arse (audacity) Brahms and Liszt — pissed (drunk) brown bread — dead Bristol (short for Bristol City, a football team) — titty (breast) (usually plural) bubble (short for bubble and squeak) — Greek bubble (short for bubble bath) — laugh (noun) butcher's (short for butcher's hook) — look (noun) Cadbury's Flake — mistake chalk (short for Chalk Farm) — arm cheese and kisses — missus (wife or girlfriend) china (short for china plate) — mate (friend) city slickers — knickers cobblers (short for cobbler's awls) — balls (testicles) cocoa — say so, as in "I should cocoa." cream-crackered — knackered (Cockney slang, for a slang word "knackered", meaning tired) currant bun — sun (also The Sun, a British newspaper) custard and jelly — telly (television) daisy roots - boots dog and bone — phone dog's meat — feet Duke of Kent — rent Duncan Goodhew - clue dustbin lid — kid Finsbury (short for Finsbury Park) — arc(light) (in theatres) fireman's hose - nose four by two- Jew frog and toad --road ginger (short for ginger beer), King Lear, Brighton Pier — queer (homosexual) Gregory Peck — neck gypsy's kiss — piss half-inch — pinch (steal) Hampsteads (short for Hampstead Heath - teeth Hank Marvin — starving Irish jig — wig iron hoof — poof (homosexual) jam-jar — car Jimmy Riddle — piddle (urinate) Joanna — piano (pronounced "pianna" in Cockney) Khyber (short for Khyber Pass) — arse laugh and joke — “smoke†loaf (short for loaf of bread) - head loop the loop — soup mince pie) — eye minces (short for mince pies) — eyes moody — stolen Mutt and Jeff — deaf nelly (short for Nelly Duff) — puff (life, as used in the phrase "Not on your nelly!") north and south — mouth Oliver Twist — pissed (drunk) Oxford (short for Oxford scholar) — dollar (five shilling piece, since Royal Mint made dollar coins with 'Dollar and Five Shillings on them, until decimalization) Peckham Rye — tie (necktie) pen and ink — stink (noun) plates of meat — feet porker, porky (short for pork pie) — lie (untruth) rabbit (short for rabbit and pork) — talk raspberry ripple — cripple raspberry (short for raspberry tart) — fart rifles (short for rifle ranges) — changes Rosie (short for Rosy Lee) — tea rub-a-dub - pub Ruby Murray — curry salmon and trout — snout (tobacco) sausage and mash — cash scooby (short for Scooby Doo) — clue (inkling, as in "I haven't got a scooby.") septic tank — Yank sherbert (short for sherbert dab) — cab (taxi) skin and blister — sister syrup (short for syrup of figs) — wig (sic) tables and chairs — stairs taters (short for potatoes in the mould) — cold (adjective) tea leaf — thief tid (short for tiddlywink) Tilburys (short for Tilbury docks — socks titfer (short for tit-for-tat) — hat tomfoolery — jewellery tom tit — [***] town halls — balls (testicles) trouble and strife — wife vera lynn - skin two and eight — state (of upset) whistle and flute — suit (of clothes) ones and twos — shoes pony and trap — crap mince pies — eyes in and out — snout adam and son - done circus and clown- brown
In my old long time ago life was sometimes heard in pubs near London construction sites " that's it, Jonsesy's (me) on the Vera, be a long session!" Vera Lynn = Gin
also Gold Watch = Scotch
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OK gotta wrap mt hy head around this... maybe I'll make up my own rhyming slang.
isn't Richard the third something for taking a ..... as in t*rd... or dirty bird? or something... I vaguely remember a row over his supposed remains being found in a parking lot a few years bak...
or was that a spoof because somebody dumped in a car park?
"It is no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
To do it properly, you can't use the word that actually rhymes. Like "trouble" goes to "rubble" goes to "Barney Rubble" and then you just use "Barney".
So you have to make two correct guesses to figure it out. "He's in a lot of Barney"; so what does Barney mean? Barney the Dinosaur? Barney Phyfe? And if you DO figure out "Barney Rubble", then what does "Rubble" refer to? Bubble? Oh yeah, TROUBLE!
The cockneys would be 5 subjects down the road while I'm still scratching my head about how much trouble he's in ....
Lannis
"Why do you wear that thing, Dobby?" "This, sir? 'Tis a mark of the house-elf’s enslavement, sir."
...how in the world "bird" is a meaning of jail time? Explain please the intricacies to decipher that. Yes, I can explain some of that in Spanish dialects but almost all came like a "development" of the original word; but here in your examples is a no sense style; whatever rules then plenty of people use them for certain period of time and boom, just a new meaning...
...how in the world "bird" is a meaning of jail time? Explain please the intricacies to decipher that. Yes, I can explain some of that in Spanish dialects but almost all came like a "development" of the original word; but here in your examples is a no sense style; whatever rules then plenty of people use them for certain period of time and boom, just a new meaning...
Being in jail is "doing time" in regular English. "Time" rhymes with "bird lime" (bird-droppings), and you don't say the rhyming word, so it's just "bird" -> "bird lime" -> "time".
Nobody but Cockneys can figure it out, has nothing to do with the intricacies of English. Makes no sense unless you are One Of THEM!
Like trying to figure out "rap" lyrics. Here, trying figuring this 15-year-old Outkast rap video out without the lyrics in front of you ....
Mate of mine was in pokey doing a bit of Porridge, seems he had a Richard on a jam sandwich, well...! The Bill went Ape, his mate was in the Khazi at the time having a Pony, but as soon as he came out he nabbed me chum. The screws let him have it too...
Very close Lannis, it is Lilian Gish = Pish, A Scots variant for taking a leak. There are a few other Scots variants for rhyming slang. mostly crude. Ie Single Fish, Jeremy Hunt, One of the trickiest. Political Political levvy = Bevvy , short for beveridge, code for an alchoholic drink.
Eg, After a few roonds of political I was dyin for a Lillian.
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Dang...after 40 years of living midway between Boston and Maine I finally mastered the intricacies of phrases like "wicked pissah, minga, and come into it hahd(hard)" all learned ove many a bottle of Fat A$$ in a glass, and now I'm presented with a whole new iteration of the English language. No wonder non English speakers claim it's the hardest in the world to learn.
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Yer only half way there, where I am from some places had backspeak. , Broughty Ferry , ( a coastal town on the firth of Tay) nearby to my inland tcheuchter village, was a plague port, disconnected from Dundee ( the big deal whaling centre, when whaling was a thing) , by dialect and disease. It was the place of free entry for many when the whaling was big. Folks in the Ferry spoke a funny way,..
backwards. with suffixes like "addle"
My old foreman, could still do it. Eddie Peddie , a true hero of the revolution, best turbine man I knew. A gentleman and a scholar. Mostly Flemmish emigrees came in to the Ferry when the big town was closed at the four gates ,. The likes of Websters, Weavers, Nederlanders , Spanish sorts , Arabs, all ended up in the Ferry,
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