General Chat

Shelly, Ron is one of the funny ones on here lol......he cracks me right up.........lol...

what part of the east end you in may I ask?...and Ron, NO, Shelly is not from Walford.......IT DOES NOT EXIST..LOL

Shelly lol.........we all having a good banter and all

EDIT:

Ron you know so much slang, you had to Google.......tuts!!

Ron, if the cap fits?....that's not a slang expression tho.......

Shelly, I was born in Brixton and raised mainly in Deptford, my dad was south London (Deptford) thro and thro. A lot of the old slang stuff still used but there are newer twists on some of it...ie more modern terms etc......the money slang stuff is still pretty much the same tho...

Whirley
Hope thats not aimed at me. This is a nice thread. Being as i was in London for many many years i know a lot of slang anyway.

I'm off soon to close me mince pies
ttfn

50 is bullseye

38b

a monkey hun

Niagra Falls = balls (testicles)

North and south = mouth

a bullseye is £50 quid hun.....so I;d rather that then a pony lol

er Ron no it isn't real, that's the whole idea of the slang!

your syrup is better coz mine is real. lol

Ron, nice Syrup!

aww is that cheating?

well i better go up the apple and pairs then.
night night

lend us us a bottle

lend us a jax

lend us a bullseye

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may not be "true" cockney slang, but are sayings which us Londoner's use./.. talk..

What a load of cobblers.

Cobbler's Awls = Balls.

Linda

Stoke-on-Trent Bent (criminal) He's totally Stoke.
Sweeney Todd Flying Squad (Police) Here come the Sweeney.
Syrup of Figs Wig Check out the Syrup on 'is head.
Tea Leaf Thief Watch it, he's a bloody Tea Leaf.
Tit for tat Hat Has anyone seen my Titfer?
Tom and Dick Sick He's feeling a bit Tom.
Tom Foolery Jewellery I gave me Trouble some Tom Foolery for Christmas.
Trouble and Strife Wife Just had a Barney with me Trouble.
Two and Eight State (of anguish) He's in a right old Two and Eight.
Uncle Dick Sick He's just been Uncle Dick over me new Whistle.
Vera Lynns Skins (tobacco paper) Pass the Veras, mate, and I'll roll up.
Weasel & Stoat Coat Pull on yer Weasel.
Whistle and Flute Suit I just got a new Whistle.
Apples and pears = stairs

April (April in Paris) = Aris (from Arstotle = Bottle, from Bottle and glass = Arse)

Aris = arse (from Aristotle, see above, or Bottle)

Attila (Attila the Hun) = two-one (2i, an upper 2nd class UK university degree)
Barnet (Barnet fair) = hair
Barney (Barney Rubble) = trouble, now also means argument
Basil (Basil Fawlty) = balti (curry)
Battle Cruiser = Boozer (public house
Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison)
Boat (boat race) = face
Bobble (Bobble hat and scarf) = laugh ("you're having a bobble", ie., you cannot be serious)
Bottle (Bottle and glass) = arse (also meaning courage, from the allusion to loss of rectal control under pressure)
Bowler Hat = Cat
Brahms (Brahms and Liszt) = pissed
Brass Tacks = Facts ('let's get down to brass tacks')
Brassic (boracic lint) = skint (penniless)
Bread (bread and honey) = money
Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts)
Brown Bread = dead
Bubble (Barf/Bath) = laugh ('you 'avin' a bubble?..')
Bubble (and Squeak) = Greek (a Greek person), or a magistrate or judge (beak) or wife (based on rhyming bubble with trouble, from trouble and strife)
(Buckshee is not cockney rhyming slang for 'free', as some sources suggest, including here previously. I am grateful to Huw Thomas for pointing me in the right direction about the actual origins of Buckshee.)
Butchers (butchers hook) = look ('give us butchers..')
Canoes = shoes
Chalfonts (Chalfont St Giles) = piles (Haemorrhoids)
Charlie (Charlie Hunt) = (yes you guessed it again - remember it next time you call someone a right charlie)
Chewy toffee = coffee
China (china plate) = mate ('me old china')
Christmas crackers = knackers (testicles)
Christmas crackered - knackered (worn out, exhausted, broken, etc)
Cloud seven = heaven
Cobblers (cobblers awls, or cobblers stalls) = Balls ('you're talking cobblers')
Coco/Cocoa = say so (see variations below)
Cream crackers/crackered = knackers/knackered (testicles/worn out - also producing the expression 'creamed' meaning exhausted or beaten)
Crust (crust of bread) = head
Daisy Roots = boots
Desmond (Desmond Tutu) = two-two (2ii, a lower 2nd class UK university degree)
Dickie Bird = word
Dickie Dirt = shirt
Ding dong = sing song (now evolved to mean argument or fight)
Dipstick = prick (bet you never knew that was rhyming slang)
Dog and bone = phone
Douglas Hurd = third (third class university degree) or turd
D'Oyly Carte = fart
Duch (duchess of Fife) = wife ('me old Duch')
Duke of Cork = talk
Dunlop Tyre = liar
Dustbin lids = kids
Earwig = twig (understand, to catch on - now evolved to mean eavesdrop)
Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk
Farmers (farmer Giles) = piles (haemorrhoids)
Flying duck = (yes you guessed it - and now more commonly evolved back to give the expression 'couldn't give a flying fuck')
Frog and Toad = road
Gary Glitter = Bitter (the beer, as in 'a pint of Gary')
Geoff Hurst = first (a 1st class university degree)
German band = hand (particularly used in plural: 'Germans' for hands - apparently German bands were commonly seen in London in the early 1900s - I am grateful to C Isaacson for confirming that 'Germans' was a common expression for hands in 1950s London)
Greens (greengages) = wages (money)
Ginger (ginger beer) = queer (homosexual)
Gipsy's (gipsy's kiss) = piss (urination - this is the noun sense of a piss rather than verb 'to piss'. First recorded in the 1970s the original usage was for example "I need a gipsy's" although more recently usage can drop the apostrophe-S, so that the word gipsy stands alone to mean piss, and the full expression is inaccurately interpreted as 'gipsy kiss'. Other less common cockney rhyming slang kiss associations meaning piss include French kiss, cuddle and kiss, ta ta kiss, and goodnight kiss.)
Half inch = pinch (steal)
Hampstead Heath = teeth
Hillman Hunter = punter (customer - Hillman Hunter was a car from the 1960s)
Hit and miss = kiss or piss
Holy ghost = toast
Iron (iron hoof) = poof (homosexual)
Jack Jones = alone, (on your own - 'On your Jack')
Jacob's (Crackers) = knackers (testic

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Nooooooooo

nice set of railings..

Eartha Kitt

Barry White........

work it our for yaselfs lol