- Adam and Eve – believe
- Alan Whickers – knickers
- apples and pears – stairs
- Artful Dodger – lodger
- Ascot Races – braces
- Aunt Joanna – piano
- Baked Bean – Queen
- Baker’s Dozen – Cousin
- Ball and Chalk – Walk
- Barnaby Rudge – Judge
- Barnet Fair – hair
- Barney Rubble – trouble
- Battlecruiser – boozer
- bees and honey – money
- bird lime – time (in prison)
- Boat Race – face
- Bob Hope – soap
- bottle and glass – arse
- Brahms and Liszt – pissed (drunk)
- Brass Tacks – facts
- Bread and Cheese – sneeze
- Bread and Honey – money
- Bricks and Mortar – daughter
- Bristol City – breasts
- Brown Bread – dead
- Bubble and Squeak – Greek
- Bubble Bath – Laugh
- butcher’s hook – a look
- Chalfont St. Giles – piles
- Chalk Farm – arm
- china plate – mate (friend)
- Cock and Hen – ten
- Cows and Kisses – Missus (wife)
- currant bun – sun (also The Sun, a British newspaper)
- custard and jelly – telly (television)
- Daisy Roots – boots
- Darby and Joan – moan
- Dicky bird – word
- Dicky Dirt – shirt
- Dinky Doos – shoes
- dog and bone – phone
- dog’s meat – feet [from early 20th c.]
- Duck and Dive – skive
- Duke of Kent – rent
- dustbin lid – kid
- Elephant’s Trunk – drunk
- Fireman’s Hose – nose
- Flowery Dell – cell
- Frog and Toad – road
- Gypsy’s kiss – piss
- half-inch – pinch (to steal)
- Hampton Wick – prick
- Hank Marvin – starving
- irish pig – wig
- Isle of Wight – tights
- jam-jar – car
- Jayme Gibbs
- Jimmy Riddle – piddle
- joanna – piano (pronounced ‘pianna’ in Cockney)
- Khyber Pass – arse
- Kick and Prance – dance
- Lady Godiva – fiver
- Laugh n a joke – smoke
- Lionel Blairs – flares
- Loaf of Bread – head
- loop the loop – soup
- Mickey Bliss – piss
- Mince Pies – eyes
- Mork and Mindy – windy’
- north and south – mouth
- Orchestra stalls – balls
- Pat and Mick – sick
- Peckham Rye – tie
- plates of meat – feet
- Pony and Trap – crap
- raspberry ripple – nipple
- raspberry tart – fart
- Roast Pork – fork
- Rosy Lee – tea (drink)
- Round the Houses – trousers
- Rub-a-Dub – pub
- Ruby Murray – curry
- Sausage Roll – goal
- septic tank – Yank
- sherbert (short for sherbert dab) – cab (taxi)
- Skin and Blister – sister
- Sky Rocket – pocket
- Sweeney Todd – flying squad
- syrup of figs – wig (sic)
- tables and chairs – stairs
- tea leaf – thief
- Todd Sloane – alone
- Tom and Dick – sick
- tom tit – shit
- tomfoolery – jewellery
- Tommy Trinder – window
- trouble and strife – wife
- two and eight – state (of upset)
- Vera Lynn – gin
- whistle and flute – suit (of clothes)
- Backhander – a dodgy payment that is made in a secretive manner. Such as someone who pays a local councillor a few quid to ensure that they get a planning application passed!
- Bell-end – as in the end of a penis. Used as an insult to someone, such as ‘Boris you are a bell-end!’
- Boat race – a personal favourite of mine, but not very politically correct, but on ‘London Is Cool’ we couldn’t give a toss about the PC brigade! It means she looks amazing from behind, but her face is as ugly as a bull dog chewing a nettle with pee on it. Just like Cherie Blair!
- Chas’n'Dave – just what I’m needing at the moment, means ‘shave’. I need a Chas ‘n’ Dave!
- Cream your knickers – an expression used to describe someone when they get overly excited over something.
- Damage – how much does it cost, ‘what’s the damage mate?’
- Dosh – money.
- The Filth – the Police
- Gooner – is the nickname for Arsenal fans.
- Monkey – term used to describe £500.
- Nicker – money. ‘That is 900 nicker in any shop you’re lucky enough to find one in’.
- On the game – and there are a few round here, means she is a prostitute.
- Sky rocket – Pocket. Put that 20 quid in your sky rocket.
- Sweet – cool or excellent, used when things are going good or someone is happy about something.
- Trouble and Strife – a term used to describe the wife.
- Tighter than a ducks arse – they are very mean or stingy with money.
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