HOBBIES
Esperanto -
COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
My dad was a true Cockney. He was born in Hoxton in the sound of Bow Bells. Bow Bells is in Cheapside, City of London not Bow, East London. There are few cockneys left as they have been pushed out to Essex and Hertfordshire by the influx of new City workers and immigrants.
There is a lot of slang about, there is a lot of rhyming slang introduced by TV script writers but original cockney rhyming slang is not as wide as people now believe.
Here is a primer; the swearing has been omitted, the usage in brackets. Not much I can do about how to speak it, other than to drop your aitches and put that image of Dick Van Dyke out of your head.
But if someone says you've got a nice 'arris its a once removed piece of slang. Aristotle = bottle and glass = arse
Cockney to English
Adam and Eve believe
Apples and pears (apples) stairs
Barnet fair (barnet) hair
Boat race (boat) face
Boracic Lint (brassic) skint, no money
Brown bread dead
Butchers hook (butchers) look, take a butchers
China plate (china) mate
Cream crackered knackered
Currant bun sun
Daisy roots boots
Derby Kelly belly
Dickie Dirt shirt
Dog and bone (dog) phone
Frog and toad road
German band (germans) hand
Ginger beer (ginger) queer, gay
Half inch pinch, steal
Hampstead heath ('ampsteads) teeth
Irish jig wig
Jack Jones (on your jacksy) alone
Jam jar car
Joanna piano
Kate and Sid steak and kidney pie
Laugh and titter bitter, beer
Loaf of bread (use yer loaf) head
Mince pies eyes
Mutt and Jeff (mutton) deaf
North and south mouth
Pen and ink stink
Plates of meat (plates) feet
Pork pie (porky) lie
Rabbitt and pork (rabbitt) talk
Rosie Lee tea
Taters in the mold (taters) cold
Tea leaf thief
Tit for tat (titfer) hat
Touble and strife (trouble) wife
Two and eight state, mess
Whistle and flute (whistle) suit
English to Cockney
Alone On yer Jack Jones
Believe Would you Adam and Eve it
Belly Derby Kelly
Bitter A pint of Laugh and titter
Boots Daisy Roots
Car Jam jar
Cold Its Taters out there
Dead Brown bread
Deaf Mutt and Jeff
Eyes Mince pies
Face Nice boat
Feet Big Plates
Hair Comb yer barnet
Hand germans
Hat titfer
Head Use yer loaf
Knackered Cream crackered
Lie Don't tell porkies
Look Get a good butchers
Mate Me old china
Mouth What a North and south
Phone Get on the dog
Piano Joanna
Pinch Half inch
Queer Ginger
Road Frog and toad
Shirt Dickie Dirt
Skint I'm brassic
Stairs Climb the apples
State I'm in a right Two and eight
Steak and kidney Kate and Sid
Stink It Pens and ink in 'ere
Suit Bought a new whistle
Sun Currant bun
Talk Don't rabbit on
Tea A nice cup of Rosie Lea
Teeth Me 'ampsteads 'urt
Thief You nasty little tea leaf
Wife Going home to the trouble
Wig Irish