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[Sussex] Rhyming Slang - Do You Use It?







Guinness Boy

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That and the Mastermind "answering the question before last" sketch are two of the best written, cleverest and funniest comedy sketches ever made. I now giggle in anticipation of "small brown Richard III" rather than it actually happening.

They're a right tin.
 










Papak

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I quite like the "modern" ones:

Leo Sayer = All-dayer

Brittney Spears = Beers

Walter Mitties = you get the idea...

etc.
 










WATFORD zero

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Of course not, being Sussex born and bred, I'm all trugs, twiterns and stoolball


Although I've always had a butchers at anything interesting :blush:
 






Love rhyming slang, and spend far too much time thinking of new ones.

Always Fun to try and crowbar an Albion ref into it. For example, a Ruby Murray can be a Bert or a Glenn instead. Or Neil McNab for crab, in deference to his penchant for sideways passing and his Nickname of McCrab due to that….

Still use going for a Bert???
 




lawros left foot

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Everyone uses it, even if they don’t know it.


For example, Bottle, bottle and glass, class.

Or, alternatively, ‘arris’ ( as in sit on your arris) Aristotle- bottle and glass,- arse.
 






zefarelly

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Stoolball and Twiterns, absolute Sussex.

We played stoolball at school . .had no idea at the time . . .my last house, (cottage really) was on a twitten. I never knew that was a Sussex word either

Trugs too, my grandmother always had one and we still do . . . Although that word has travelled
 




BN9 BHA

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I was working with some lads and one said “are you coming down the Colonel?” I had no clue what he meant until he said Colonel Gadaffi - cafe. :lolol:
 




Baldseagull

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Brighton fans are often called iron hoofs.

I always found it quite funny that West Ham fans, love to sing "come on you Irons", what with West Ham being a proper cockney area.
 




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