Cockney rhyming slang

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Examples of Cockney rhyming slang in common use 1.3 External links

English

Noun

Cockney rhyming slang

1. A cant used by Cockneys in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyming word or phrase, this word or phrase then often being abbreviated to its first syllable or syllables, or its first word.

Examples of Cockney rhyming slang in common use

The following is a list of well-known (to Londoners) examples of Cockney rhyming slang. It is not intended to be comprehensive — for a much fuller list, see the external link below.

Many terms are based on popular culture, and so the cant is constantly updated according to changing fashions. The terms listed here are well-established.

• Adam and Eve
• apples and pears
• aris
• Barclays Bank, J. Arthur Rank, Jodrell Bank
• berk
• bird
• boracic
• Brahms and Liszt
• bristol
• butcher's, butcher's hook
• china
• cobblers
• currant bun
• dog and bone
• frog and toad
• ginger, ginger beer
• half-inch
• iron, iron hoof
• jam-jar
• Jimmy, Jimmy Riddle
• joanna
• khyber
• mince pie
• mutton, Mutton Jeff
• nelly
• north and south
• pen and ink
• plates of meat
• pork pie, porker, porky
• rabbit
• raspberry
• raspberry ripple
• Rosy , Rosy Lee
• Ruby Murray
• syrup
• taters
• tea leaf
• titfer
• tomfoolery
• two and eight
• whistle and flute

External links

• Dictionary of Cockney rhyming slang