Cockney Rhyming Slang

stooge

Sp@rtacus wrote:

I hit the basement for a barry, then had a quick dickie and a chaz. I lashed some gel in the barnet and threw on me new bucket, whistle and rhythms. I stuck some giros in the @rse sky and caught the Huey into town to meet me chinas for a few scoops in our favourite Battler. I met a girl at the bar who wasn’t the mae… she had a cracking set of top tens alright, but her Brendan was in ribbons. The goggles went on after a few more britneys though, so off I went with her for an oul Jack Palance, a ruby then a schnakey joer home to get her in the Jeyes and have me Nat King.

brilliant!

Siogfinsceal

jack n jills - pills
Jo maxi - taxi
gone for a kit kat - taking a break
jack-a nory- story
Flunchy - a mixture between feeling 'm'eh' and being indecisive
hibernators - bugs, spiders
your having a bubble-having a laugh

daosulli

Loup da Loup = Soup
Dickie Rocks = Socks
one's & two's = Shoes
Scobby Doo's = Shoes
Jack n Gill = Bill

fitz

I've been using Jacob's for years. (Jacob's Cream Crackers).
You can call a chav a Jacob without him realising what you mean.
Second layer slang ftw.

miamee

Used to be so confused when I start working here as boss uses it quite a bit with the lads

-Is that a new tin ya have on?

-Did you get a chicken off that shop?

Eventually I understood it

Would use Mae West & ruby meself as well

grumpytrousers

shane86 wrote:

re the Pete Tong one I was suprised at one of the older cops on the Bill using this once. I didnt think house DJs and cockney men in their 50s really moved in the same circles.

EXACTLY!!!

I remember that episode...don't watch it nowadays, but I remember thinking 'Jack Meadows, gruff yorkshire cop, saying 'it's all gone Pete Tong'...surely not'

oh - and somebody else said 'bubble' for laugh...AFAIK, you could use that as short for bubble bath, but most folk'd think you meant a Greek person, as in 'bubble and squeak'

BTW...I've heard cockneys (well, Danny Baldwin in Coronation St) use terms like 'Harris' or ''arris' (that's quote mark, apostrophe, a, r, r, i, s quote mark) to describe ones posterior. Is that more a corruption of the word 'arse' than a rhyming slang thing, does anybody know.

Similarly, i've heard the word 'joanna' used to refer to a piano. Can't think what the link is, unless it's a play on a bad pronunciation of, er, piano?

thoughts?

Sp@rtacus

grumpytrousers wrote:

...BTW...I've heard cockneys (well, Danny Baldwin in Coronation St) use terms like 'Harris' or ''arris' (that's quote mark, apostrophe, a, r, r, i, s quote mark) to describe ones posterior. Is that more a corruption of the word 'arse' than a rhyming slang thing, does anybody know...thoughts?

Yep, "aris" is slang for @rse...

Aris = Aristotle
Aristotle = Bottle
Bottle & Glass = Arse

AFAIK, thats where the expression "to lose your bottle" ie: to lose your @rse, comes from.

Never hear of Joanna/Piano.

shane86

On Bo Selecta the other day Pete Doherty talked of getting arrested by "the Rodders"

Grandad and Uncle Albert must be spinning in their graves to find that Rodney Trotter=Copper :eek:

Ocasionally use Dot Cotton (rotten) As in "ah his bird is a bit Dot Cotton in fairness"

Dublin has its own unique style of word association, kind of rhyming slang but not at the same time e.g. the Huey Luas, a Ronnie (Ronnie Drew, usually to describe a girl who has a hairy lip)

miamee

shane86 wrote:

On Bo Selecta the other day Pete Doherty talked of getting arrested by "the Rodders"

Grandad and Uncle Albert must be spinning in their graves to find that Rodney Trotter=Copper :eek:

Ocasionally use Dot Cotton (rotten) As in "ah his bird is a bit Dot Cotton in fairness"

Dublin has its own unique style of word association, kind of rhyming slang but not at the same time e.g. the Huey Luas, a Ronnie (Ronnie Drew, usually to describe a girl who has a hairy lip)

thats an insult all on its own pmsl

grumpytrousers

You sure it ain't getting arrested by 'the Rozzers'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slang_terms_for_police_officers

Sp@rtacus

shane86 wrote:

Dublin has its own unique style of word association, e.g. ... a Ronnie (Ronnie Drew, usually to describe a girl who has a hairy lip)

Ronnie doesnt derive from Mr. Drew. AFAIK its a very old Dublin expression coined from Ronald Coleman, a popular actor in the 40s/50s, who used sport a thin moustache. It was derived from there to take the michael out of young lads with that silly thin bum fluffy growth.

Dot Cotton however...

Just My View

Peggy Dell = Smell

Not rhyming but I like these anyway

Talking to God on the big white phone = driving the porceline bus = vomiting in the toilet

dave.obrien

i heard somebody saying they didn't feel the maggie recently, maggie being maggie may, leading to mae west, leading to best, which i liked.

also, see you at the dick van = dick van dyke = spike = spire was interesting... just hilarious to see a mate of mine shout at another friend on a busy henry street that we should meet at the dick van. just a bad choice of words, really.

Maverick88

You'll normally find the rhyming slang is shortened such as:

How's your Donald- Donald Duck= Luck
My Gregory is killing me= Gregory Peck = Neck
Nice Peckham- Peckham Rye= Tie
Where'd you get that Dickie- Dickie Dirt= Shirt
It was in the current- Current bun- The Sun (Newspaper)
I'm off for a Jimmy- Jimmy Riddle- Piddle
I'm off for a Jack - Jack Dash- Slash

Then you have Jack & Danny fan*y. Wont come up with a sentence for that one.

Or Harry Munk Sp*nk

portumna

TK Maxx - jacks
Havin a giraffe - havin a laugh

thegen

going for a David, David Gower = Shower
going for a few Roasters, Roast Joint = Pint
Pain in me Swiss, Swiss Roll = Hole
Pedal and Crank = W__k
Orchestra Stalls = Balls
Mutt and Jeff = Deaf
Did ye get you Nat? Nat King Cole = Hole
Thrupenny Bits = Ti_s


And a host more I cant remember

Snowie

its all gone a bit pete tong- wrong

pass us the vira's - vira lins - Skin's

Im not from London i don't try to be... how ever i know more scouse slang then fairy talk.....