Hey guys, what is “Cockney Rhyming Slang?”
Cockney is a dialect, right? The one with all the glottal stops everytime a word has a “t” in the middle of it. 
Thanks,
No, wait, I mean, Cheers!
IronFist
Isn’t that like ‘flack, stack-cash’ or whatever, where one word is said which rhymes with another that relates to the actual word being said?
Some examples:
Mince pies…eyes
Apples and pairs…stairs
Brown bread…dead
China plate…mate
Tea Leaf…Thief
Pork pies…Lies
Oliver Twist…Fist
Apple Crumble…Rumble
Rubber Duck…F@!k
****neys are what everyone else in Britain call people from London. People who tend to use ****ney rhyming slang are Taxi drivers, and coppers who think theyre funny.
a common one Americans are more familiar with, “What in Sam Hill?!?!?!?”
Sam Hill= the Devil
LOL
“****neys are what everyone else in Britain call people from London. People who tend to use ****ney rhyming slang are Taxi drivers, and coppers who think theyre funny.”
Well technically not ALL of london, Its just the east end really, where im from. But ****ney ryhming slang isnt really used anymore. I know u got these guys like in Oceans eleven and the “barney rubble-trouble” stuff but you will find barely anyone seriously speaking like this, only **** -takers
There are variants of it used by kids…call it the new age ****ney talk - but the “skill” (lol, did i say that) of rhyming has been lost and its just straight slang which no1 else in the UK can understand (apart from brixtonites i guess)
-greg
bread and honey = money
trouble and strife = wife
Fillet o’ cod = sod.
according to Herbert Asbury’s Gangs of New york , there was a bit of rhyming slang in old New york for most of the 19th century. it seems like it was either absorbed or displaced by the more common new york dialect we are so familiar with today.
just my two cents.
why should people in brixton, from the south of london, be able to understand ****ney rhyming slang, which is from the east??
Originally posted by Stranger
[B]a common one Americans are more familiar with, “What in Sam Hill?!?!?!?”
Sam Hill= the Devil [/B]
That’s some of the lamest rhyming slang I ever heard. Bloody Americans, can’t get anything right.
sam hill = devil?
of course it does.
Bloody Americans, can’t get anything right.
You act like Americans made it up. :rolleyes:
NEWS FLASH: That expression was imported a long time ago. You may not like it. It was mentioned merely for the fact that some Americans (mostly older ones) are aware of it, unlike the other C0ckney Rhymes that were posted.
Originally posted by Stranger
[B]Bloody Americans, can’t get anything right.
You act like Americans made it up. :rolleyes:
NEWS FLASH: That expression was imported a long time ago. You may not like it. It was mentioned merely for the fact that some Americans (mostly older ones) are aware of it, unlike the other C0ckney Rhymes that were posted. [/B]
Oooh. Keep yer hair on!
Bloody Americans. Always so defensive.
Originally posted by Serpent
[B]
Oooh. Keep yer hair on!
Bloody Americans. Always so defensive. [/B]
well, yeah. We’re afraid that some day you brits might get thre crazy idea to start dressing up as injuns and throw all our McDonalds’ burgers into the harbor.
I’m a merkin and I know a couple more.
Hamburger Hill = the pill
A Leo Sayer = an all dayer
sharky…‘read’ my post.
i didnt say people in brixton would understand the ryhming slang - I said that eastend (mainly hackney) slang is very similar to south london (brixton) slang
Fancy a Leo Sayer darlin’?
Dancing on the ceiling will never sound the same again.
Sorry Serpent.
It can get a little on edge here at KFO. I thought in addition to all of the other woes in the world, the US was about to be blamed for destroying C0ckney slang. Don’t laugh, it is possible on this forum.
As it has been kind of mentioned, what is the deal with term “bloody”? It is not very offensive here in the US, but it was recently pointed out to me that it is an obscenity in the UK.
whistle and flute= a suit
correct, no?
souljah
sorry man i missed the ‘now it’s just straight slang’ bit 