Rhyming Slang

[glosterseagull]

Raspberry Tart = ****
Bird Lime = time (jail)

The first words is in day to day language but they have lost the rhyming bit.

Any other examples?

i went to http://www.aldertons.com/english-.htm and doing "bird" is not there!

any better sites?

 

[dwayne]

Maceroon??

 

[Wilts]

Not a scooby...

 

[Lush]

Raspberry Tart = Hart?

 

[dwayne]

Not a scooby...

probably best kept that way

 

[dwayne]

fart

 

[Wilts]

"You're 'avin a bubble"... some cockney rhyming slang is quality. Sometimes you find people who overuse it on purpose to make them sound cool... damn annoying people.

 

[dwayne]

The irony is that most "real" cockneys live in essex now and not East London, for many reasons. My mates who I went to Nottingham with fancy themselves as London wideboys, it is a bit sad at times.

 

[Wilts]

I went to Stratford today to an old man's pub to watch the England rugby game. They were well hardened in there for sure.

Estuary speak is the main dialect for the South East at the moment. Its all you get in Reading nowadays. Same with Brighton from what I remember, "innit"?

How damn annoying also is it that if you're from anywhere near London and have a south-east accent, many northerners will tell you you're from London? There are other places in the south-east too, y'know!

Wilts - Flying the flag for Thamesian dialect.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Britneys ... beers

"Get us a couple of britneys, mate"

"OK. Two Nelsons it is then".

Nelson Mandela ... Stella

"If you have another one, you'll want to Wallace and Grommit".

 

[Wilts]

Going on a Leo...

Leo Sayer - all-dayer

 

[Lord Bracknell]

We'll get a Bettino

Bettino Craxi = taxi.

Former Italian prime minister, just in case you've forgotten.

 

[Tooting Gull]

"Innit". second only to "vibe" as the word that immediately denotes you as a total tool. IMHO...

 

[Wilts]

"Innit". second only to "vibe" as the word that immediately denotes you as a total tool. IMHO...

I find "know what I mean" to be damn irratating on the end of every sentence, like.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I know we're getting off the point of this thread here, but it's important. 'Like' inserted three times a sentence is more or less asking for someone to shoot you, and I'd like to think that would be a strong defence in a criminal trial.

Getting back to the the rhyming slang aspect, the only thing more annoying would be if someone said "Rosamund Pike" instead of "like" at all those moments where they were palpably failing to string some words seamlessly together. Be different if they had a picture of her, of course.

 

[Juan Albion]

Port Vale Scott = "Stupid twot"

 

[Brovion]

Two more bits of rhyming slang in everday use where only the first word is now used:

Butcher's hook = look
Berkley Hunt = (Rude word beginning with 'c' for a part of the female anatomy) The 'Berkley' has been shortened to 'Berk' or 'burk'

 

[glosterseagull]

Bread (and Honey) - Money
barnet (Fair) - Hair
Bristol(s) city - titties

 

[Vinyl Richie]

We'll get a Bettino

Bettino Craxi = taxi.

Former Italian prime minister, just in case you've forgotten.

better yet catch a sherb(ert dab) to the nuclear (sub)


alternative: off down the battle (cruiser = boozer)

 

[glosterseagull]

"You're 'avin a bubble"... some cockney rhyming slang is quality. Sometimes you find people who overuse it on purpose to make them sound cool... damn annoying people.

I was born in Cyprus (RAF Child). My London Cousiin!"s said

"Bleedin ell. We got a bleedin Bubble for a cousin!"

Bubble and Squeak - Greek

So wha's your Bubble mean, Wilts?