Heres some better examples of cockney slang
Adam and Eve
- believe (as in "Would you Adam and Eve it")
almond rocks
- socks
apples and pears
- stairs
ariss
- arse (aristotle = bottle = bottle and glass)
barnet fair
- hair
Berk
- c**t (Berkshire Hunt reduced to berk and used as an insult)
Butchers Hook
- Look (Lets have a butchers at the paper)
bird lime
- time = prison ("Jack is doing bird for theft")
borasic lint
- skint = no money
Brahms and Liszt
- pissed = drunk
brass tacks
- facts ("Lets get down to brass tacks")
brown bread
- dead ("he is brown bread")
china plate
- mate (can be said to a complete stranger)
cream(ed) crackered
- knackered = tired out
dickie dirt
- shirt
dog and bone
- phone (dog 'n' bone)
duck and dive
- skive, avoid work
Dutch (Street)
- to share (Going Dutch means everyone pays their bill)
fiddle
- diddle = swindle
Flowery dell
- cell = prison or small room
frog and toad
- road
Ginger beer
- queer = homosexual
half - inch
- pinch ("He's half-inched me motah") (He has stolen my car)
Hampstead Heath
- teeth
Hampton wick
- prick = penis
J Arthur Rank
- wank = masturbate (also merchant banker)
jam jar
- motor car
jimmy riddle / jimmy riddle
- piddle = urinate
joanna
- piano
kermit the frog
- bog = lavatory
marbles and conkers
- bonkers = mad ("He's lost his marbles")
Mickey Bliss
- piss, deriding or making fun of as in 'Taking the Mickey'
mince pies
- eyes
mothers ruin
- gin
Mutt and Jeff
- deaf ("She's a bit mutt and jeff")
Nellie Duff
- puff = life ("Not on your Nellie")
north and south
- mouth (norf 'n souf)
peckham rye
- tie
plates of meat
- feet
plink and plonk
- vin blanc = wine (all wine is plonk, from bad french vin blanc)
pony
- £25 ("That'll cost you a pony")
pony and trap
- crap = rubbish ("That's a load of old pony")
pork pies / porkies
- lies
rabbit and pork
- talk ("Can that woman rabbit!)
Radio Rental
- mental = A few sandwiches short of a picnic ("He is a bit Radio rental")
raspberry tart
- fart (blowing a raspberry = a rude and derogatory noise)
Richard the Third
- turd, shit
rip and tear
- swear ("He really let rip")
rock and roll
- dole now called social security (in USA a fight, as in "Lets rock")
Rosey Lee
- tea
Rub a dub dub
- pub
Ruby Murray
- curry
Scarpa Flow
- go ("Got to scarper")
sixes and sevens
- fix = difficulties ("We are all at sixes with this work")
strides
- trousers (from striding along - walking)
Sweeny Todd
- (Metropolitan Police) Flying Squad normally called "The Sweeny"
syrup of fig
- wig ("That bloke is wearing a syrup!")
taters in mould
- cold (It's a bit taters today)
thr'penny bit
- tit
tit for tat
- hat
Tod Sloan
- alone ("I'm on me tod"). Tod Sloan was a jockey who was always out in front, in his own.
Tom and Dick
- sick
Trouble and strife
- wife
two and eight
- state = problems ("You are in a right old two and eight")
Whistle and flute
- suit
SOME MORE GENERAL SLANG
bung
- bribe
bunk
- abscond
cor blimey / strewth
- surprise (cor blimey is from God Blind me, whilst
strewth is from Lord's truth)
dosh
- money
dutch courage
- drink, alcohol
french letter
- condom (lettre anglais, if you are French)
going dutch
- share expenses
gone for a Burton
- dead eg "Where is Tom" "He has gone for a burton" (from an advert, during the war, for Burton Ales that had a missing character in the picture)
guv
- governor = boss
hot
- stolen ("I think this car's hot" could mean stolen or fast)
Kushti
- comfortable, good (bad translation of an Indian word)
luv
- love
mush
- friend (possibly from Russian for Husband)
nark
- police informant
nosh
- food (possibly from Russian for Knife)
varder
- look at, see
lallies
- legs (varder those bulging lallies - look at those musclar legs)
bonnie palones
- girls
sorted (pronounce "sor-id")
- solved a problem