The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang - AIRC105
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Cockney Rhyming slang - A type of slang in which a words are replaced by a words or phrases they rhyme with.
Apple and pears = stairs
To hide meaning from the law and/or to exclude outsiders
List of slang:
( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Cockney_rhyming_slang )
( http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/ )
( http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm )
to have a butcher's (hook) = a look
She's brown bread = She's dead
(Aunt) Joanna - piano
Boat race - face
North and South = mouth
Ruby Murray (popular singer in the 1950s born in Belfast) = curry
Rub-a-dub-dub = pub (public house)
pig's ear = beer
George Raft = draught
Gregory Peck = neck
plates of meat = feet
Pen and Ink = stink
Porky = pork pie = lie, e.g. "He's telling porkies!
jam jar = car
jugs (of beer) = ears
Adam and Eve = believe = as in "would you Adam and Eve it?"
dog and bone = phone
whistle (and flute) = suit
trouble (and strife) = wife
Tom and Dick = sick
china (plate) = mate
Tea leaf = thief
Rosie = Rosie Lee = tea e.g. "Have a cup of Rosie"
Brahms and Liszt = "pissed" = drunk
Would you Adam and Eve it, I was down the rub-a-dub-dub with the trouble having a couple of pigs when a tea leaf nicked my wallet!
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There's a bit of rhyming slang outside London in the UK, but it's almost not known at all outside its own environment. For example:
BELFAST-
corn beef = "deef" = deaf ('mutton' or 'Mutt and Jeff' = 'deaf' in cockney rhyming slang)
tatie bread = dead (tatie bread is potato bread)
mince pies = eyes
a wee duke = a quick look
NEWCASTLE-
a deek = a quick peek
MANCHESTER-
Newtons = teeth (from "Newton Heath", rhymes with "teeth"). In London they use 'Hampstead Heath' as rhyming slang for teeth.
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