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Cockney Rhyming Slang

stooge

It's great isnt it, but do many people actually use it?

For instance, apparently Taxi's are widely referred to as Jo-ers due to the RTE tv programme in the early 1990s called Jo-Maxi. I've heard jo-maxi but never jo-ers or joeys'.

Also, whats peoples favourite rhyming slang, whether cockney,made-up or otherwise?

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sunnyjim

Skin and blister - Sister
"Did ye get yer rock and roll?" - did you get yer hole?
Tommy tank - y'know
Pedal and cranker - y'know

phantom_lord

tbh I've never heard this used in ireland, pretty surprised to see a thread on it

Zombienosh

Brad pitt - S**t
apple tart - fart
hit and miss - piss
mae west - best
pedal and crank - w**k
dog and bone - phone
donald trump - dump
damien duff - m**f

swalsh

The lads in the Ross O Carroll-Kelly books use rhyming slang alot for example

Peter Pan--- tan
Boat race--- face
Britney or britney spears--- beers
swiss---hole, in that way!

Thrill

Are you lot taking the hit and miss. Would never use slang myself.
It's a load of old Barry white, and anyone who says any different is
a pedal and cranker.
If anyone uses slang around me they'll get such a kick in the rock an roll
they wont be able to apple tart or take a Donald Trump for a month.

Dun laoire

Jimmy floyd = W**k (Jimmy floyd hasslebank)
Chickens neck = Cheque

One i use with the missus.
"I've got a BK love", meaning i'm looking for cuddle
BK= Burger King= Home of the Whopper. You get me:D

Jamey

Some local guy told me yesterday to 'watch the Highland Jig on your man' as another guy with a wig walked past!

A favourite here is "What's the Kenny Gory?', Kenneth Gory being a local lad who works in Super Valu :P

Thrill

Dun laoire wrote:

Jimmy floyd = W**k (Jimmy floyd hasslebank)
Chickens neck = Cheque

One i use with the missus.
"I've got a BK love", meaning i'm looking for cuddle
BK= Burger King= Home of the Whopper. You get me:D

BK=Burger King= Home of the Whopper=I've got a Whopper.
or simply
BK=Big K*ck:D

Del boy called a guy who couldn't father a child a Jaffa (seedless)
Take a jack and jill (pill)

Green_Martian

one i would use now and again........... your'e have a Bubble.........Bubble bath = Laugh..... there are probably a few others but can't think now...........:D

deisemum

would you adam and eve it, believe it. I occasionally use this one.

Tom and dick, sick

To go for a gypsy's or gypsy's kiss, p*ss

to go for a burst on the banjo

I lived in the east end of London for years and heard quiet a few of those already mentioned from the blokes I worked with but have forgotten most of them now

Charlie

I think Irish people, in particular Dublin males from aged 16-30 have there own form of rhyming slang, unrelated to the cockney form. One of my friends will coin a phrase and then most of us use it without even realising. Newest one is Peter Crouch for couch. All time favourite is bunz for money. Bunsen burner nice little earner ala David Brent.

Dyr

gemma hussey= ahem
tin roofer = spoofer
billy barry/cash n carry= marry
daniel day = luas
rythym n blues = shoes
rocknroll= dole
jackpalance/southoffrance= dance
garden hose=nose
napper tandy= ehhh head

jackanory=story

Dubs definitely make up rhyming slang and word plays all the time. Culchie types might be a bit too dull to manage it though. And whoever said jo maxi was doing the rounds before the RTE kids show is talking outta their swiss imo

Archeron

The only ones I've ever used are "cashing a chicken" (chickens neck, cheque) or having a nice cup of Rosie (Rosie Lee, Tea)

biko

charlie mchugh wrote:

I think Irish people, in particular Dublin males from aged 16-30 have there own form of rhyming slang

Yeah, figures. Probably have been over to London and came back well impressed.

exCrumlinBoyo

When I lived back home in Crumlin Dublin, I used various ones a lot. I’m going for a hit and miss or a barry white or I am heading for a Mac **** after eating MacDonald’s.

My favorite one I used was in reply to something I did not like. Go ask me swiss roll… Go ask me hole….. Swiss Roll I like.

Living here in the states I will throw out that I am going for a hit and miss and a barry white and if the trouble and strife calls me on the dog and bone tell her I am having a mac ****… They think I am gone crazy…

Go ask me swiss roll.

uncle ernie

tom kite = sh*te
brown bread = dead
ham shank...

Sp@rtacus

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.

Basement (Jaxx): le jacksers
Dickie (Dower): Shower
Chaz (& Dave): Shave
Barnet (Fair); Hair
Bucket (of dirt): Shirt
Whistle (and Flute): Suit
Rhythm (& Blues): Shoes
Giros: Euros
Sky (Rocket): Pocket
Heuy: Luas (..and the News)
China (& Plates): Mates
Battler(Battle Cruiser): Boozer
Mae (West): Best
Top Tens(Top ten hits): Her tatties
Bredan(Grace): Face
Ribbons: Resembled one that perhaps had been set alight then extinguished with the use of a 9-iron
Britneys: Beers
Jack Palance: Dance
Ruby Murray: Curry
Jeyes(Fluid): Nude
Nat King(Cole): Hole

sturgo

Tom Hank
Tommy The Tank
J. Arthur Rank
Peddle & Crank
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

OLP

Barney - Barney Ruble - Trouble

Thrill

Dublin spire (dire):D

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