So you think you know something about British slang?

Nov 5, 2015 1:07 AM

wowbaggertheinfinate

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Welcome to the world of cockney rhyming slang. I live nowhere near London, and i'm nothing like a cockney. But i'm English, and even i can barley follow what they say.

where is your god now?

What the bloody hell is this?? who is this Gregory? what does he want with my sausage?

what?

Now this one i know

I'm pretty sure they're just taking this piss now.

saucey sauce:

www.aldertons.com http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm

Abergavenny ............................. Penny
Ace Of Spades ........................... AIDS
Acker Bilk .............................. Milk
Adam And Eve ............................ Believe
Adam And The Ants ....................... Pants
Airs And Graces ......................... Braces
Airs And Graces ......................... Faces
Airs And Graces ......................... Races
Alan Minter ............................. Splinter
Alan Whickers ........................... Knickers
Alderman's Nail ......................... Tail
All Afloat .............................. Coat
All Time Loser .......................... Boozer (Heavy Drinker)
Allan Border ............................ Out Of Order
Alligator ............................... Later
Almond Rock ............................. Frock
Almond Rocks ............................ Socks
Andy Cain ............................... Rain
Andy McNab .............................. Cab (Taxi)
Anna Maria .............................. Fire
Apple Core .............................. Score (Twenty Pounds)
Apple Fritter ........................... Bitter (Beer)
Apples And Pears ........................ Stairs
April Fool .............................. Stool
April Fool .............................. Tool
April Fools ............................. Football Pools
April Showers ........................... Flowers
Aristotle ............................... Bottle
Army And Navy ........................... Gravy
Artful Dodger ........................... Lodger
Arthur Ashe ............................. Cash
Arthur Scargill ......................... Gargle (Drink)
Ascot Races ............................. Braces
Ash And Oaks ............................ Smokes (Cigarettes)
Auntie Ella ............................. Umbrella
Auntie Nellie ........................... Belly
Ave Maria ............................... Fire
Ayrton Senna ............................ Tenner (Ten Pound Note)
Baa Lamb ................................ Tram
Babbling Brook .......................... Cook
Babbling Brook .......................... Crook (Criminal)
Baby Giraffe ............................ Half (A Pint)
Bacardi Breezer ......................... Geezer
Bacon And Eggs .......................... Legs
Baked Potato ............................ Later
Ball Of Chalk ........................... Walk
Balloon Car ............................. Saloon Bar
Band Of Hope ............................ Soap
Bangers And Mash ........................ Cash
Barn Owl ................................ Row (Quarrel)
Barnaby Rudge ........................... Judge
Barnet Fair ............................. Hair
Barney Rubble ........................... Trouble
Basil Fawlty ............................ Balti
Basin Of Gravy .......................... Baby
Bat And Wicket .......................... Ticket
Bath Bun ................................ Son
Bath Bun ................................ Sun
Battle Cruiser .......................... Boozer (Bar)
Battle Of Waterloo ...................... Stew
Bear's Paw .............................. Saw
Beechams Pill ........................... Bill (Statement)
Beechams Pill ........................... Still
Bees And Honey .......................... Money
Beetles And Ants ........................ Underpants
Beggar Boy's Ass ........................ Bass
Beggar-My-Neighbour ..................... Labour
Bended Knees ............................ Cheese
Bengal Lancer ........................... Chancer
Barry McGuigan .......................... Big 'Un (Big One)
Big Ben ................................. Ten
Big Dippers ............................. Slippers
Billy Goat .............................. Coat
Bird Lime ............................... Time
Biscuits And Cheese ..................... Knees
Bladder Of Lard ......................... Card
Bo-Peep ................................. Sleep
Boat Race ............................... Face
Bob Hope ................................ Soap
Bob Squash .............................. Wash
Bobby Moore ............................. Score (Twenty Pounds)
Bobby Moore ............................. Sure
Bonney Fair ............................. Hair
Bonnie And Clyde ........................ Snide
Boracic Lint ............................ Skint
Borrow And Beg .......................... Egg
Botany Bay .............................. Run Away
Bottle And Glass ........................ Class
Bottle And Stopper ...................... Copper (Police)
Bottle Of Cola .......................... Bowler
Bottle Of Glue .......................... Two
Bottle Of Porter ........................ Daughter
Bottle Of Sauce ......................... Horse
Bottle Of Scotch ........................ Wrist Watch
Bow And Arrow ........................... Barrow
Bow And Arrow ........................... Sparrow
Box Of Toys ............................. Noise
Brass Band .............................. Hand
Brass Nail .............................. Tail (Prostitute)
Brass Tacks ............................. Facts
Bread And Butter ........................ Gutter
Bread And Cheese ........................ Sneeze
Bread And Honey ......................... Money
Bricks And Mortar ....................... Daughter
Bright And Breezy ....................... Easy
Briney Marlin ........................... Darling
Britney Spears .......................... Beers
Brixton Riot ............................ Diet
Brothers And Sisters .................... Whiskers
Brown Bread ............................. Dead
Brown Hat ............................... Cat
Brussel Sprouts ......................... Scouts
Bubble And Squeak ....................... Beak
Bubble And Squeak ....................... Greek
Bubble And Squeak ....................... Week
Bucket And Pail ......................... Jail
Buddy Holly ............................. Volley
Bugs Bunny .............................. Money
Bull And Cow ............................ Row (Quarrel)
Bullock's Horn .......................... Pawn (In-Pawn)
Burnt Cinder ............................ Window
Burton On Trent ......................... Rent
Bushel And Peck ......................... Neck
Bushey Park ............................. Joke
Bushey Park ............................. Lark
Buster Keaton ........................... Meeting
Butcher's Hook .......................... Look
Cab Rank ................................ Bank
Cain And Abel ........................... Table
Calvin Klein ............................ Fine
Can Of Oil .............................. Boil
Canal Boat .............................. Tote
Cape Of Good Hope ....................... Soap
Captain Cook ............................ Book
Captain Hook ............................ Book
Cash And Carry-ed ....................... Married
Cat And Cages ........................... Wages
Cat And Mouse ........................... House
Cellarflap .............................. Tap (Ask For A Loan)
Chalfont St. Giles ...................... Piles (Haemorrhoids)
Chalk Farm .............................. Arm
Charles Fox ............................. Box
Charlie Chan ............................ Tan
Charlie Prescot ......................... Waistcoat
Charlie Pride ........................... Ride
Chas And Dave ........................... Shave
Cheerful Giver .......................... Liver
Cheese And Kisses ....................... Missus
Cheltenham Bold ......................... Cold
Cherry Hog .............................. Dog
Cherry Ripe ............................. Pipe
Chevy Chase ............................. Face
Chew The Fat ............................ Chat
Chicken And Rice ........................ Nice
China Plate ............................. Mate (Friend)
Chipmunks ............................... Trunks
Chocolate Fudge ......................... Judge
Chopsticks .............................. Six
Christian Slater ........................ Later
Christmas Eve ........................... Believe
Cilla Black ............................. Back
Claires Raynors ......................... Trainers
Clever Mike ............................. Bike
Clickety Click .......................... Sixty-Six
Clothes Peg ............................. Egg
Coalheaver (From Giver) ................. Penny
Coals And Coke .......................... Broke (Financially Ruined)
Coat And Badge .......................... Cadge (Borrow)
Cock And Hen ............................ Ten
Cock Linnet ............................. Minute
Cock Sparrow ............................ Barrow
Cockroach ............................... Coach
Conan Doyle ............................. Boil
Country Cousin .......................... Dozen
Cow's Calf .............................. Half (Fifty Pence)
Cream Cookies ........................... Bookies (Bookmakers)
Cream Cracker-ed ........................ Knackered
Crust Of Bread .......................... Head
Cuddle And Kiss ......................... Miss
Currant Bun ............................. Nun
Currant Bun ............................. Son
Currant Bun ............................. Sun
Currant Cake-y .......................... Shaky
Custard And Jelly ....................... Telly (Television)
Cuts And Scratches ...................... Matches

...and thats just a few

...the fuck?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Gregory in question is Gregory Peck. That's the only one I know the etymology for :D

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

not all English people are cockneys, that's cockney rhyming slang.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER C!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He then orders an Aristotle of the most ping pong tiddly in the nuclear sub and switches back to his footer!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As someone living in London i haven't ever heard half of these 10/10

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Alan Ford was the taxi driver in Werewolf in London.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My favorite cockney, http://imgur.com/VfIMKpA

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

elements of the past and future, combinin' to make something not quite as good as either

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eels up inside yer

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"He then orders a glass of the most ting-tong-tiddly in the nuclear sub" - Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

One of my favs. Sauce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7aj1SCE8k

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for Danny John Jules! OOOOOOWWWWW!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do Geordie next!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Aye, larn us some Geordie, mate!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"mate"? I think you mean "marra"..

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's Mackem, isn't it?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nah.. goerdie an all..

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The sausage thing sounds like you're about to take a dump.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

trouble and strife = wife, teapot lids = lids etc. As an Aussie I get these.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Proper fucked?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"I'm off to sausage a Gregory" YES THANK YOU

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yer avin a giraffe mate

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's he got a tea cosy on his head for? He got shot in the face Lincoln. I would have thought that was obvious.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I don't care what it means, but from now on if I have to sausage a Gregory I'm on the toilet.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

To "sausage a Gregory" sounds like something dirty and above all, gay.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

No thanks, Turkish, I'm sweet enough.

11 years ago | Likes 471 Dislikes 1

Sana turk argo öğretebilirrim

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Hasstir, sen önce Türkçeyi dogru konuş.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Always upvote Snatch. 'Ave a moat for yer twinkiebits, Chestah. +1

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I fackin' 'ate fackin' pikeys

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yes, before "Zee Germans" get there.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You can fuck off to Tibet, and I shall have men, nutters, from Parkhurst, dressed in Yeti suits, up Everest with meat cleavers.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are those sausages done yet!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Don't hurt me uncle Archie, I'm only little!" Am I doing it right?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Actually this scene is "Do you know what nemesis means?"

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

In this case personified by me, an arrible barstard.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*cunt

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Snatched at the chance, didn't you, you dag

11 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 2

PERIWINKLE BLUE

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

you like dags?

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Better hurry before ze Germans get ya.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

American here. I use it to fuck with co workers all the time.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Texan here. I just talk with my normal thick country accent and it fucks with my coworkers all the time. Our slang is bad in itself!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is neat, but I've learned that knowing slang from outside your region is useless and nobody knows what you're on about.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's the point of Cockney rhyming slang, it wasn't for 'outsiders'

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I would say do one for the Scots next, but nobody knows what they're saying

11 years ago | Likes 154 Dislikes 1

HEAR YU! SHUT IT YAH BEAN!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

BAWBAG

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

haud yer weesht ya fockin daftie

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You cannae?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Jordies do. But no one wants to listen to a jordie talk

11 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

I love Sarah Millican's voice

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hadaway an' shite!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Except foreigners. They love a good Geordie

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love Sarah Millican's voice

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Geordie surely?

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

They get both sometimes

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yes

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just grab a bottle of whisky and run at people?

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Not whiskey, Buckfast.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ac ace as Buckfast is, it's not Scottish?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But it is drank a lot in Scotland! :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fair enough, bring on the Buckfast :-D

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Square go?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it most likely originated as a cryptolect (intentionally cryptic language) in the 1840's in the East End by peddlers or ~criminal element~

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And she shat on a turtle!

11 years ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 0

Tea kettles

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The one that was all sixes and sevens?

11 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Up the apple and pears! The one at the crimbo din-din!

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

D' ya like dahgs?

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

o DOGS yea I like dogs

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah but they were Irish gypsies, not cockneys from London.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You all sound the same anyway.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cockney is all about rhymes, but they can be one step removed. Hampsteads: Hampstead heath -> teeth. Porkies: Pork pies -> lies. Some (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

(2/2) are pretty mainstream: "Blowing a raspberry": raspberry tart -> fart. Source: Am Swedish.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Also a Gregory is Gregory Peck -> Cheque.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They actually supposed to be removed every time, using the 2nd rhyming word defeats the point.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Indeed. It's supposed to make it difficult to understand. Would you like some vinegar with your jockeys?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for Brick Top. Now do one for Pikeys

11 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 2

Yeah... not a fan of that nickname for them - my surname is Pike :(

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Caravan for me ma

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Small life saving tip... never call a pykie a pykie. Don't go down well.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I fookin haet Pikeys

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Nothin good can come of this

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is a pikey campsite. ooooooh you bastud

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

the problem with pikeys is you can never tell what the fuck is coming out of there mouth

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Whatthefuckamigonnadowithacaravanthataintgotnowheels?

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

[The one about his mother's partiality for periwinkle blue that no one can decipher]

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wudaya thenk we are, teeves?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

betterleavewhileyastillgotthelegstacarryya

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

you'vegotsomefuckingtiresonya

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Whatdoyatinkweare...tieves?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

ya like daags, mista

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

Dags ?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

oh...dogs. sure i like daags.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nemesis: "A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me."

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 2

Fuck I must say that so wrong every time.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You mean you recite this a lot?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah of course, doesn't everyone?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

snatch has to be one of the best films ever made

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

It is my number 1 favorite movie. Of all time. Which means I'm saying it's the best damn movie ever made.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It is a damn good movie.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also, in my opinion, Brad Pitt's best role. He was simply perfect and I'm normally not a big fan of his.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've not watched it yet. I'm saving it. Also my husband weren't keen, so to speak.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i agree wholeheartedly.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why do I instantly think this is a way to trick Americans into talking like idiots...

11 years ago | Likes 148 Dislikes 2

It's not my uncle is really good at it :D

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Accents are like catnip to Americans.. as soon as they hear it they're compelled to imitate it, and recite their own lineage.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

what do you mean, trick them into it? :D come on, you walked into that one

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Believe it or not it's the gods honest

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Me no dumb. Me want gum gum

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

As an American, we don't need to be tricked...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

IIRC it developed so that law-averse types could discuss illegal shite without worrying about undercover bobbies earwigging

11 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 1

Earwig going?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

For in prison wasn't it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Earwigging?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eavesdropping

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thanks fam

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I ain't dropped no eaves, sir, no I 'aven't

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0