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Cockney Rhyming Slang

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  • #62
    Sp@rtacus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭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... :D


  • #63
    Just My View
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭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


  • #64
    dave.obrien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 573 ✭✭✭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.


  • #65
    Maverick88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭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

    :)


  • #66
    portumna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    TK Maxx - jacks
    Havin a giraffe - havin a laugh


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  • #67
    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭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


  • #68
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭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.....


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