COCKNEY |
COCKNEY WORD/PHRASE | DEFINITION |
Adam and Eve | Believe |
Alan Whickers | Knickers |
Almond Rocks / Tilbury Docks | Socks |
Apples and Pears | Stairs |
Aristotle | Bottle |
Artful Dodger | Lodger |
Ascot Races | Braces |
Baked Bean | Queen |
Baker’s Dozen | Cousin |
Ball and Chalk | Walk |
Bangers and Mash | Cash Stewart Marden |
Barnaby Rudge | Judge |
Barnet Fair | Hair |
Barney Rubble | Trouble Jayme Gibbs |
Basil Fawlty | Balti |
Battlecruiser | Boozer |
Berkshire Hunt (usually shortened to Berk) | A vulgar offensive word referring to female genitalia. |
Boat Race | Face |
Bob Hope | Soap Dope (marijuana) |
Boracic Lint | Skint (no money) |
Brahms and List | Pissed (drunk) |
Brass Tacks | Facts |
Bread and Cheese | Sneeze |
Bread and Honey | Money |
Bricks and Mortar | Daughter |
Bristol City | Titty |
Brown Bread | Dead |
Bubble Bath | Laugh Robert Davis |
Bubble and Squeak | Greek |
Butcher’s Hook | Look |
Chalfont St. Giles | Piles (see also Famer |
Chalk Farm | Arm |
China Plate | Mate |
Cobbler’s Awls | Balls |
Cock and Hen | Ten |
Cows and Kisses | Missus (wife) Ken Dryden |
Ken also | |
Currant Bun | Sun |
Daisy Roots | Boots |
Darby and Joan | Moan |
Dicky bird | Word |
Dicky Dirt | Shirt |
Dinky Doos | Shoes |
Dog and Bone | Phone |
Duck and Dive | Skive |
Duke of Kent | Rent |
Dustbin Lid | Kid |
Elephant’s Trunk | Drunk Ken Dryden |
Farmer Giles | Piles Chris |
Fireman’s Hose | Nose |
Flowery Dell | Cell |
Four by Two | Jew (Allan Hoffmann) |
Frog and Toad | Road |
Gold Watch
| Scotch PT |
Gregory Peck | Cheque |
Gregory peck | Neck |
George Raft | Draught |
Gypsy’s Kiss | Piss (urinate) |
Hampton Wick | Prick |
Hank Marvin | Starving |
Isle of Wight | Tight Ken Dryden |
Jam Jar | Car |
Jimmy Riddle | Piddle/Widdle (urinate) |
Aunt Joanna | Piano |
Khyber Pass | Arse (backside/bottom) |
Kick and Prance | Dance |
Lady Godiva | Fiver (Five pounds) |
Laugh n a joke | Smoke Alan Robertson |
Lionel Blairs | Flares (I.e. trousers) |
Loaf of Bread | Head |
Mickey Bliss | Piss (urinate) |
Mince Pies | Eyes |
Mork and Mindy | Windy |
Mutt and Jeff | Deaf |
Nanny Goat | Coat Kenneth Stratford |
North and South | Mouth |
Oily Rag | Fag (cigarette) |
Orchestra stalls | Balls Alan Robertson |
Pat and Mick | Sick |
Peckham Rye | Tie |
Pen and Ink | stink (smell) |
Plates of Meat | Feet |
Pony and Trap | Crap (sort of manure!) |
Porky Pies | Lies |
Rhythm n blues | Shoes Alan Robertson |
Rosie Lee | Tea |
Roast Pork | Fork |
Round the Houses | Trousers |
Rub-a-Dub | Pub (Public House/Bar) |
Ruby Murray | Curry |
Salmon and Trout | Snout (tobacco/cigarette) |
Sausage Roll | Goal |
Scooby (Scooby Doo) | Clue Daryl Armstrong |
Sherbert Dab | Cab |
Skin and Blister | Sister |
Sky Rocket | |
Struggle and Grunt | A vulgar offensive word referring to female genitalia. E. |
Sweeney Todd | Flying Squad |
Syrup of Figs | Wig |
Tea Leaf | Thief |
Tilbury Docks / Almond Rocks | Socks Mick Rouemaine |
Thrupney Bit *** Two Bob Bit* | Shi* (sorry) Robert Davis See note below Squits (diarrhea) Rob Studholme |
Tom Tit | As above. John Cole /Chris |
***A “thrupney bit” was a 3 pence piece before decimalisation in UK. | |
“Peter” has corrected on this one – Thrupney Bit(s) is apparently slang for “Tit(s)” I am not sure about this, however, as “tupney” Dave Row has Charles ‘Tuppenny’ is neither rhyming “Unlike Dickens’ fictional Nancy (of ‘Oliver’ fame) – a ‘tuppenny Well, I am glad we have | |
Tit for Tat (Titfer) | Hat |
Todd Sloane | Alone |
Tom and Dick | Sick |
Tom Foolery | Jewellery |
Tommy Tank | Bank Kenneth Stratford |
Tommy Trinder | Window |
Trouble and Strife | Wife |
Vera Lynn | Gin |
Weasel and Stoat | Coat |
Whistle and Flute | Suit |
There are two other pages on this
subject; a list sorted by words and
another providing examples of sentences using
rhyming slang.