[Sussex] Rhyming Slang - Do You Use It?

[Super Steve Earle]

Ha! Yes, 'Crab McNab'! Only ever moved sideways! He was quite a good player though, but we, me old china, must be in a minority of NSC members who both remember him and the way he played.

Must admit I called McNab 'Superscrote' due to his weedy physique.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Are you having a giraffe?

 

[Mr Bridger]

My wife said I'm not a true cockney so I pushed her down the apples & oranges.

 

[Rogero]

This is a true story . A few years ago a friend of mine had a dinner party and decided to invite his lodger who was from St Helena . During the meal the lodger stood up and said excuse me , I am just going for a J Arthur . This caused a lot of fun and laughter as apparently he meant to say a Jimmy Riddle.!

 

[Wellesley]

Only if I'm putting on a fake Cockley accent for hilarious comic effect.

 

[maffew]

Just doesnt make sense, I mean curry should be a Glen not a Ruby, shirley?

 

[Superphil]

Bob Booker makes up his own, assitant commentating on a match a few years back (at the Amex?) we nearly scored, he exclaimed "He's only gone and hit the Beans on Toast".

 

[The Wookiee]

I appreciate we’re not cockneys, but playing with the King’s can be one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Before someone enlightened me last week, I’d always wondered why Scots were referred to as ‘sweaties’

Are you having a bubble ?

 

[Adders1]

Bob Booker makes up his own, assitant commentating on a match a few years back (at the Amex?) we nearly scored, he exclaimed "He's only gone and hit the Beans on Toast".

Jimmy Bullard is the king of the unforgivable ‘he’s only gone and stuck it in the playboy mansion!’ (Stanchion) is my favourite though

 

[METALMICKY]

Are you having a giraffe?

Beat me to it. Use that one a lot in our house and our young kids for some reason find it hilarious.

One of the lesser known ones I've sometimes use is is ' Taters ' as in describing the weather outside as being cold. The derivation is ' potatoes in the mould' which then just becomes ' taters '

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Septic as in Septic Tank = yank, though I tend to use CSY = cock sucking yank.


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[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Barrow Boy]

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[OzMike]

Every now and again.

 

[Jack Straw]

I always thought it was Pony (and Trap) and "nice pair of Earthas"

You're right, but I thought it was nice pair of thrupenneys!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Everyday, just ask the Bread Knife.

Trouble and strife.

I don’t use it deliberately but some expressions have passed into everyday language like titfer for hat (tit for tat).

 

[Guinness Boy]

You're right, but I thought it was nice pair of thrupenneys!

Bristols?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

From the same genre (but not rhyming) I enjoyed hearing ‘it’s a bit Phil Collins’ about the weather…..

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Yes, love a bit of it. My grandfather was a Londoner and my Dad used to send us kids "up the apples" at bedtime...a tradition that persists into our next generation.

Only a few words of it are in my natural vocab. "Barnet" probably highest frequency.