Can someone give me some common words used almost exclusively in the UK & Ireland.
ex....f ag- a cigarette
mate- a friend
2007-03-19 04:26:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
a ton - 100 pounds
cheers - thanks
trouble and strife - wife
boat race - face
old Joanna - piano
rub a dub - pub
apples and pears - stairs
watcha - hello
her indoors - wife
do me a favour - no way!
the drink - a river or canal
the smoke - London
curtain twitcher - nosy person
load of cobblers - a lie
geezer - male person
bloke - male person
cor blimey! - used when surprised
hit the road - go home
make tracks - go home
gob on a stick - someone who talks too much
little wrap - someone not honest (Irish term)
well hard - a person you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley!
******** - stupid person
hit the hay - go to bed
hit the sack - go to bed
forty winks - have a little sleep
my old man - father
Jimmy Riddle - urinate
How's your father - a bit of the other!
2007-03-19 07:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a start not everyone who lives in the UK & Ireland speaks cockney.
In fact, only a person born within the sound of Bow Bells can properly call themselves a cockney and as Bow Bells no longer sound there won't be any more cockneys!!!
An Irish person would not speak cockney unless they were, how shall I say, taking the mick!!!
Cockney is not a dialect, it's an accent.
Cockney rhyming slang is not a dialect either, it's a code.
Now we've got all that straight - let's go for a ruby (murray - curry) so I can rest my plates (of meat - feet) after climbing the apples and pears (stairs)....
2007-03-19 04:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by Skidoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give me a call on the dog and bone if you're going for a Ruby.
2007-03-19 05:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd better ask Dick van Dyke.
2007-03-19 06:12:05 · answer #4 · answered by john b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋