Cockney Rhyming Slang! What Does It All Mean?

solarshingles  says:
18 months ago

Very, very interesting. I truly like loud and broad cockney. Not many people these days still use this dialect. Maybe some builders and fruit stall merchants. It is disappearing very fast. Bow had been my home for some time and I still love the church, there. The whole area has been changing very, very fast due to tens of $billions of new redevelopments. The largest financial center in Europe has been built near by in Docklands - Canary Wharf. I miss the old times very much.

p.s.

(It was a very rough language for a very rough time: To do the person 'IN' in Cockney means 'to kill' )

robie2  says:
18 months ago

Years ago someone tried to teach me all this and the only one I could remember until your hub refreshed my memory was " He's a real Richard the Third" LOL shows you how my mind works eh? Iloved this CS. Thanks.

Amy_Roberts  says:
18 months ago

hehe, great collection of cockney slang :D thanks

compu-smart  says:
18 months ago

Hi Shirley, your welcome to come round mine for a Rosie Lee anytime;)

rmr  says:
18 months ago

Love it! I never hear this dialect around here, but I do know many of these due to prolonged exposure to Monty Python. Excellent refresher course!

LondonDuchess  says:
18 months ago

Lol -  my family don`t really use much slang .... but I do sometimes say butchers ... as in "give us a butchers" or "gis a butchers" and you know what when I do ..... I don`t even think about it as being different from my normal "give me a look" or "let me see".  It is just somehow gets said. Left over from the past when my parents and grandparents etc said it all the time. Before reading your post I would have said I don`t ever .... but come to think of it, I often tell my children to get the "dog and bone" (never shorten it to bone, though) .... reading HubPages certainly makes you stop and think (about the strangest things !) LOL

And while we are on the subject Comp, does it make you stop and do a double take when someone says Portobello Road instead of "Portabella" - or Notting Hill instead of  "Not-in-`ill"  ....

LondonDuchess  says:
18 months ago

LOL, LOL  ...... I come from the top of Ladbroke Grove ( near the gas works) ..... did you really think I was "posh" ? 

LOL ..... I am sorry to disappoint .....

I only say "butchers" once in a while (I think) ....... don`t ever use the rest at all, except for the odd reference to the old dog and bone ...... could I be "semi" posh? 

Or should I request a change of name to "My old Dutch" if that seems more suitable?

Viv 

Uninvited Writer  says:
18 months ago

Excellent hub...

Constant Walker  says:
18 months ago

U.W., Uninvited Writer is an EXCELLENT hub name!

funnebone  says:
18 months ago

Ha I found your hub to be dead wood..did I do that right?

robie2  says:
18 months ago

Now I;ve got it! I'm going down the frog and toad to cash a Gregory Peck because Im Jimmy Flint <I'm clapping my hands and dancing around the room> More compusmart--give us more!

compu-smart  says:
18 months ago

funnebone lol You are dead wood at this! You get an A+ from me;)

gale583  says:
18 months ago

Is Butchers Hook a typo? It says it stands for Hook. From one of the comments I saw it seems like you mean Look.

Constant Walker  says:
18 months ago

So, I take it the "curious buddy" didn't fly as "serious study"?

I suck at cockney... But, I now understand why I can never understand what-the-hell those are saying.

KelleyMari  says:
18 months ago

This is so great! My son played the lead in the musical "Me and My Girl" about four years ago and had to study this for his character. It was so fun to learn - I sure wish we had had this list available to us then! Good work -

einron  says:
18 months ago

I couldn't understand Cockney and I still do not. However, when I read about your article, it reminds me of the time when I was liviing in Highgate, London. The mention of Portobello conjures up a picture of four of us, me, my brother, and two friends picking our way through the lane lined with stalls. I remember that I brought two huge sized cotton made dolls for my two younger sisters when I return home after I completed my study in London. How I loved London!

moonbun  says:
17 months ago

I have to admit that I use 'syrup' in derogatory conversation. No figs though, just syrup :)

UKStudent  says:
17 months ago

Great post. Being a cockney geezer myself I especially love it. No pork pies neither bruv, don't watch dat.

DiamondGeeza  says:
8 months ago

Some egg yokers aint got a bleeding scooby when it comes to cockney rabbit n pork, tho it's 'am n cheesey once ya know 'ow, ya just gotta catch the right dickey birds then you'll being 'avin a jimmy giraffe! drop in an eastend cabin cruiser n top hat to an ol' pot n pan n maybe if ya buy 'im a ship full sail, 'e'll teach ya!

decode this n i'll give you an apple core!!! =)

compu-smart  says:
7 months ago

Your aving a right bubble! you roll n butter!! lol Some egg yokers {JOKERS} aint got a bleeding scooby {SCOOBY DOO=CLUE} when it comes to cockney rabbit n pork {TALK}, tho it's 'am n cheesey once ya know 'ow, ya just gotta catch the right dickey birds {WORDS} then you'll being 'avin a jimmy giraffe! {LAUGH} drop in an eastend cabin cruiser {BOOZER} n top hat {CHAT} to an ol' pot n pan {OLD MAN} n maybe if ya buy 'im a ship full sail {DRINK, ALE}, 'e'll teach ya!decode this n i'll give you an apple core!!! =)YOU OWE ME AN APPLE CORE=SCORE=20 POUNDS ME OLE MUCKER! and dont be late or your brown bread!:DPS..Please give the cash to the blue cross. thankyou!

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Thanks Raven for passing by!!:D

compu-smart  says:
5 months ago

At last someones got a scoobiy doo!! lol

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compu-smart  says:
3 months ago

Thanks David for using your loaf! ;) Its now been added!