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Have to wonder who started this and then why everyone followed!
Then there is "the old" as in putting on "the old" syrup and off down "the old" frog to get on "the old" dog.
Whats that all about?
Then there is "the old" as in putting on "the old" syrup and off down "the old" frog to get on "the old" dog.
Whats that all about?
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'Me 'ole china' is the only time I've heard it in reality.
Heard 'My old dutch' on the television. I assume it means duchess (the wife?) |
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you 'avin a tin barf?
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Strange isn't it, that I never heard that one, and yet instantly know what it is!
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Don't get lemon!
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"you 'avin a tin barf?"
A true cockney/Londoner would never say that. To me that's a Jamie Oliver type mockneyism. |
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Cockney rhyming slang is often used by complete Berkshires imho.
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it's a babble in it? as in babble barf?
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Wots a front wheel?
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what you steer a bike wiv
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indeed slippy....... An Ot Barf is sufficient
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certainly not a bubble, which signifies a person of hellenic origin
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Indeed Mr.B, bubble and squeak = Greek. I had a good evening playing poker in Vegas one night with 7 Americans and two other Londoners and we were using cockney betting slang to let each other know what we were holding or waiting for, the septics had no idea what we were talking about. When waiting for the flop I randomly said I hoped to climb Ben Nevis one day. Lo and behold a 7 turned up and the Londoners both folded straight away. I got two callers when I had the nuts.
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Danny says babble and e's the geezer
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As a kid I had a saturday job in a butchers shop.
They (the butchers), all used cockney rhyming slang. I hadn't got a clue what they were on about to start with, but slowly picked it up. Middle of fooking Brum it was, so no idea why they used CRS |
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Emden I've no idea about Brum but a lot of my Geordie mates use cockney slang. He was in a right 2 and 8, get that down yer Gregory etc.
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I love it when people who don't swear use the word "Berk". They even had it on the front of the Daily Mirror!!!
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My Dad taught me a bit of Gaelic and we spoke in that lingo when we didn't want people knowing what we were talking about, same sort of thing.
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Barry Conway 18 Feb 15 22:39
I love it when people who don't swear use the word "Berk". They even had it on the front of the Daily Mirror!!! Toommy Toes did that  He was mortified when he found out the true meaning.  |
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Tommy
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My Dad taught me a bit of Gaelic and we spoke in that lingo when we didn't want people knowing what we were talking about, same sort of thing.
My mom (from Cork) GRHS, tried to teach us Gaelic when we were kids. What a tough language it is to learn. I can just about remember: ain, door, tri, car, coo, cay , shocked, uckt, na, de She gave up on us...... |
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Sofiakenny- front wheel is a jewish person. As in front wheel skid.
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Emden, A friend told me she worked in a butchers in the black country when she was young and she said they used a type of slang so that the customers didn't know what they were talking about. It seems it was back slang rather than CRS.
https://www.weloveaccents.co.uk/cockney-rhyming-slang/104-cockney/cockney-rhyming-slang/217-crs-3 A lot of it is, or certainly was, used by on course bookmakers. |
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Nothing worse than someone trying to mimic an accent, when they are crap at it. I live in Ireland, grew up in Essex. The Irish here are always mimicking my 'cockney' accent but they sound like Dick Van **** in Mary Poppins when they mimic it. They dont understand there is a difference between Eastend cockney and Southeast slang. Gawd help me, Im not even a real cockney, ffs.
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...Although, you cant beat a nice ruby
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Berkshire hunt is it? sounds like it should be,
a buddy of mine used to call his wife the grumble and grunt not knowing the true meaning the silly ar$E |
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....or did he?
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the crafty git! you might just be right there roger lol
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Sausage me a Gregory?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJrBSXSs6o |
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George Cole - and Terry in minder - 'load of old Sainsburys' - now is that really kock oh knees???
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Slightly off topic but my elder sister (God rest) said things she had no idea what they meant.
A spinster and mega religious person, and a buyer for a large department store. God knows what her suppliers made of her, over lunch, when she used words she had no idea what they meant. E.g...... It's Crap.....it's Brass Monkeys and, not forgetting....it's like a Glory Hole |
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Dr Crippen
19 Feb 15 16:36 Sausage me a Gregory? Sausage roll - dole Gregory Peck - neck |
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a bushel's a neck and a gregory's a cheque shirley?
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