English Slang?

Question

i wanna know about some british slang words as they are informally used and wanna add them to my discussions..coz am
talking too formally in ma conversations...hope you people will help me wid it .

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you overhear a street trader ask another street trader to change a Dudley into an Ayrton and two Ladies, they are talking Cockney Rhyming Slang. (£20 = £10 + 2 x £5)

Cockney rhyming slang was originally a private language, a code, amongst barrow boys and costermongers, designed to prevent those not in the know from knowing what was being said.

Rhyming slang works by replacing the word to be obscured with the first word of a phrase that rhymes with that word. For instance, "face" would be replaced by "boat", because face rhymes with "boat race".

It was always foreshortened so that "whistle" was said when "suit" was meant. If the whole phrase "whistle and flute" were used, the intelligent listener might be able to work it out.

But with passage of time, CRS has become better known and some of its expressions have passed into the language eg bread = money (bread and honey) e.g. Bristols = breasts (Bristol City = titty) without people realising the origins of the phrase as rhyming slang.

Also phrases more recently coined sometimes use the full expression (e.g. Currant Bun = The Sun (newspaper) without foreshortening, e.g. Cod's roes = toes).

Sometimes the purpose of the slang was to obscure the saying of rude words frowned on by polite society, e.g. cobblers (cobblers' awls) = balls, e.g. Berk = Cu nt (Berkely Hunt)

Alans = Knickers (Alan Whickers)
Apple = Bitter (beer) (Apple Fritter)
Apples = stairs (apples and pears)
Army = Gravy (Army and Navy)
Artful = Lodger (Artful Dodger )
Ayrton = Tenner (ten pound note) (Ayrton Senna)
Bacon = blind (Bacon Rind)
Bacons = Legs (Bacon and Eggs)
Barnet = hair (Barnet Fair)
Battle = Boozer (off license) (Battle Cruiser)
Bottle = Ar se (Bottle and Glass)
Brass = Hands (Brass bands)
Bubble = Laugh (Bubble Bath)
Take a Butchers = have a look (Butcher's hook)
Chevy = Face (Chevy Chase)
China = mate (china plate)
Daisies = Boots (Daisy Roots)
Danny = Car (Danny Marr)
David = Shower (David Gower)
Dicky = Word (Dicky Bird)
Dog = Phone (Dog and Bone)
Donkeys = Years (Donkey's Ears)
Drum = Face (Drum'n'Bass)
Dudley = A score = 20 pounds (Dudley Moore)
Elephants = Beers (Elephant's Ears)
Frog = road (frog and toad)
Jimmy = Piddle (urinate) (Jimmy Riddle)
Khyber = Ar se (Khyber Pass)
Lady = Fiver (five pound note) (Lady Godiva)
Lemon = Easy (Lemon Squeezy)
Lionels = Flares (Lionel Blairs)
Loaf = head (loaf of bread)
Mother = Cupboard (Mother Hubbard)
Nanny = Coat (Nanny Goat)
Nelson = Stella (Artois) (Nelson Mandela)
Nuclear = Pub (Nuclear Sub)
Oily = *** (cigarette) (Oily Rag)
Plate = Street (Plate of Meat)
Plates = feet (plates of meat)
Pony = C rap (Pony and Trap)
Porkies = Lies (Porkie Pies)
Rabbit = talk (rabbit and pork)
Raspberry = cripple (raspberry ripple)
Richard = Tu rd (Richard the Third)
Roll = someone with mental health problems (roll and butter = nutter)
Rosie = tea (Rosie Lee)
Rounds = Trousers (Round The Houses)
Ruby = Curry (Ruby Murray)
Saucepan = Kid (Saucepan Lid)
Septic = Yank (Septic Tank)
Skies = Pockets (Sky Rockets)
Stoke = Bent (criminal) (Stoke-on-Trent)
the Sweeney = Flying Squad (Police) (Sweeney Todd)
Syrup = Wig (Syrup of Figs)
Titfer = Hat (Tit for tat)
Weasel = Coat (Weasel & Stoat)

Phrases used in full

Adam and Eve =Believe
Brahms and Liszt = pissed (drunk)
Brown Bread = Dead
Cream Crackered = Knackered
Half Inch = Pinch (steal)
Ham'n'cheesy = Easy
Hank Marvin = Starving (hungry)
Jam Jar = Car
Mince Pies = Eyes
Mork and Mindy = Windy
Mutt and Jeff = deaf
Pen and Ink = Stink
Pete Tong = Wrong
Queen Mum = Bum
Tea Leaf = Thief
Tom and Dick = Sick
Tom Foolery = Jewellery
Trouble and Strife = Wife
Two and Eight = State (of anguish)
Uncle Dick = Sick

All slang is rooted in the era of its origin and therefore some of it will be lost as time passes. In the 1980s, for example, "Kerry Packered" meant "knackered"; in the 1990s, "Veras" referred to Rizla rolling papers ("Vera Lynns" = "skins" = Rizlas), in 2004, the term "Britneys" was used to mean "beers" via the music artist "Britney Spears", although the usage may not outlast her career and/or popularity.

Answer 2

To have a butchers (to have a look butchers hook)
Trouble and strife (wife)
Frog and toad (road)
Pete Tong (Wrong)
Whistle and flute (suit)
Brahms and Lizst (pissed ie drunk)
half inch (pinch, steal)
tea leaf (thief)
rosy lee (tea)
Ruby Murray (Curry)
J Arthur Rank (****) ie "he was having a quick J arthur
Threpenny Bits (****)
Douglas , a turd as in douglas Hurd (also used for a third degree along with a desmond (Tutu for 2:2 ) a geoff Hirst (first) and cant remeber the 2:1 Maybe an attilla?

Other non rhyming slang you would need to get would be Bollocks (testicles). As in thats a load of bollocks or bollocks to that.

And for god sake remember that pissed means drunk not angry
oh and fanny does not mean your backside




Irish slang
Langers, bluthered, wasted, full, shitfaced (drunk)
foundered - cold
scundered- embarrassed
nuek - to steal
cowp- to collapse
eejit (moron)
buck idiot (a young moron)

also in Irish slang its quite acceptable to use the word feck

good luck with using some of these.

Answer 3

i can give you some cockney rhyming slang which is used in east London u.k as follows :

apples & pears = stairs
whistle & flute = suite
lady gadiver = fiver
mince pies = eyes
ruby murray = curry
brown bread = dead
haing a giraffe = laugh

just a few to start you off !

Answer 4

why would you want to know about slang when you cant even speak english properly,maybe a few lessons in english might help ,not slang

Answer 5

rhyming slang on greeting someone say "alright me old china" meaning china plate =mate ,say if you want to look at something say"lets ave a butchers" meaning butchers hook = look there are many more boat race =face ,plates of meat =feet ,etc

Answer 6

people do still use slang...i for one am a cockney bird who uses the lingo all the time, it just comes out naturally...
gregory peck....neck
ones and twos...shoes
dog and bone....fone
penny stamp....tramp
two and eight...state
i'll stop there cause i can go on forever....

Answer 7

Check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/

and

http://www.bbcamerica.com/britain/dictionary.jsp

My favourite slang words are minger, chav, ned, and schemie

Answer 8

pakao means boring

Answer 9

brew - tea