Question for UK people RE: Cockney language?

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Question for UK people RE: Cockney language?

Answer 1

Here are one or two examples to get you going:

Adam and Eve - Rhyming Slang for 'believe'.

Alan Whicker(s) - Rhyming Slang for 'knickers'

Ayrton Senna - Rhyming Slang for 'tenner'

Battle cruiser - Rhyming Slang for 'boozer'

Boat race - Rhyming Slang for 'face'.

Bob Hope - Rhyming Slang for 'dope'

Bo Peep - Rhyming Slang for 'sleep'

Borasic lint - Rhyming Slang for 'skint'

Bread - Rhyming slang for 'money'

Brown bread - Rhyming Slang for 'dead'

Butchers - Rhyming Slang , short for for 'butchers hook' meaning 'look'

Chalfont St Giles - Rhyming Slang meaning 'piles'

China - Rhyming Slang, short for 'China plate','mate'

Claire Rayner's - Rhyming Slang for 'trainers'

Cobblers - Rhyming Slang, short for 'cobblers awls', 'balls'

Dennis Law - Rhyming Slang for 'draw'

Dog and bone - Rhyming Slang for 'phone'

Emma Freud's - Rhyming Slang for haemorrhoids.

Family jewels - Rhyming Slang for 'balls'

Farmer Giles - Rhyming Slang for 'piles'

Fridge and freezer - Rhyming Slang for 'geezer'.

Ginger beer - Rhyming Slang for queer

Gone for a Burton - Rhyming Slang for 'to leave'.

Gregory Peck - Rhyming Slang for 'neck'

Gypsy's kiss - Rhyming Slang for 'piss'

Half inch - Rhyming Slang for 'pinch'

Hampstead Heath - Rhyming Slang for 'teeth'

Hampton - short for the Rhyming Slang 'Hampton Wick' meaning 'prick'

Hank Marvin - Rhyming Slang for 'starving'

Holy Ghost - Rhyming Slang for "toast"

Iron (hoof) - Rhyming Slang for 'poof'

Jack Jones - Rhyming Slang for 'own'

Jam jar - Rhyming Slang for 'car'

Jimmy Riddle - Rhyming Slang for 'piddle'

Kettle (and hob) - Rhyming Slang for 'fob'

Khyber pass - Rhyming Slang for '****'

Lady Godiva - Rhyming Slang for 'fiver'

Lionel Blair's - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'flairs'

Loaf (of bread) - Rhyming Slang for 'head'

Mickey (Bliss) - Rhyming Slang for 'piss'

Mince pies - Rhyming Slang for 'eyes'

Mutt 'n Jeff - Rhyming Slang for deaf.

Mystic Meg(s) - Rhyming Slang - for 'legs'

North and south - Rhyming Slang for 'mouth'

Oily (rag) - Rhyming Slang for '***'

Pen and ink - Rhyming Slang for 'stink'

Pete Tong - Rhyming Slang for 'wrong'

Plates of meat -Rhyming Slang term for 'feet'

Porky pies - Rhyming Slang for 'lies'

Rabbit (rabbit and pork) - Rhyming Slang for 'talk'.

Radio Rental - Rhyming Slang for 'mental'

Raspberry ripple - Rhyming Slang for 'nipple'

Rosie Lee - Rhyming Slang for 'tea'

Ruby (Murray) - Rhyming Slang for 'curry'

Scarpa / scarper - Rhyming Slang for 'to run off'

Sexton Blake - Rhyming Slang for 'fake'.

Steve Mcqueen's - Rhyming Slang for "bake beans"

Sherbert dab - Rhyming Slang for 'cab'

Skin diver - Rhyming Slang for 'fiver'

Steffi (Graff) - Rhyming Slang for 'laugh'

Sweeny Todd - Rhyming Slang for 'The Flying Squad'

Syrup of figs - Rhyming Slang for for 'wig'

Tea leaf - Rhyming Slang for 'thief'

Thrupenny bits - Rhyming Slang for '****'

Trouble and strife - Rhyming Slang for 'wife'

Weasel and stoat - Rhyming Slang for 'coat'

Whistle and flute - Rhyming Slang for 'suit'

Answer 2

vera lynns .. skins

gregory peck .. neck

harry monk .. spunk

aristotle.. bottle .. bottle and glass .. ****

rosie leigh .. tea

gary glitter .. shitter

Answer 3

I think he knows it's London, it's just a spelling mistake people.

Answer 4

Most famous ones:

Apples and pears ; Stairs

Trouble and strife; Wife



Have a "butchers" (butchers hook = look) here



http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

Answer 5

it was started back in Victorian London by the east end barrow boys as a way of confusing the upper classes

Answer 6

I do not live in the London area but I am pleased that you are getting a good response maybe from the Londoner's, but my thanks are from the North as in Manchester, where people are more friendly and give you a proper meal and we have our own sayings but I will leave you to contend with London.

Answer 7

Cockney rhyming language was mainly centred around east end of London. Basically a different word or phrase that sounds like or means the same.

Apple and Pears = Stairs is the most common.

Many many more which if anyone from east end on here at moment will surely list.

Answer 8

Hi, firstly it's nice to see someone from another country interested in "our" language!



There is a webiste which is very useful in describing the slang itself and gives examples:



http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/



Its weird, cockney slang is something that seems very "retro", characters in 50's and 60's films always use it, but it is constantly evolving. For example there is a radio DJ here in the Uk called Pete Tong, his name is now used in the place of "wrong". (It's all gone a bit Pete Tong) We should be proud of it!

Answer 9

Its said to originate from war time when Cockneys started to speak in a secret code type way to confuse the enemy. To be a true cockney you are suppossed to be born within the sound of the bow bells. Much of the rhyming slang that is spoken now is spoken by the Eastenders (people from the east end of London). There are so many examples I wouldn't know where to start but look at some of the links people have given for idea's xxxxx

Answer 10

I'm not a Londoner but one of the many traits of Cockney Ryming Slang is that they use the first word rather than the full rhyme eg



I'm just going up/down the frog (frog & toad = road)

He's a bit ginger (ginger beer = queer)

give me the bees (bees & honey = money)

let's have a butchers (butchers hook = look)

Cor blimey!! my plates are killing me (plates of meat = feet)



and so on....you're confused aren't you...? :)

Answer 11

i totally agree, if your white people are too scared to hire you incase they're seen as racist towards blacks or migrants. everything is so dependent on the colour of your skin and it's not fair, it has nothing ot do with the colour of skin if your good at something then you should be able to do it. i love this article, as a cockney i find it funny, it's like clawing back some of the PC that's creating a barrier between races.

Answer 12

Apples and Pears = stairs

Trouble and strife = wife



And many more in that ilk.



By the way, it's not Lindon, it's London.... and it's Cockney rhyming SLANG

Answer 13

Try http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/alphabet.htm for the alphabet and http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm for rhyming slang.

Answer 14

to go far a piss = Gipsy kiss !

five = fish alive

nick = dick

Answer 15

how about apple and pears....which means stairs