[Sussex] Rhyming Slang - Do You Use It?

[darkwolf666]

No I don't, you Berk.

Don’t think a lot of people appreciate the origins of this one, as “berk” is now seen as a soft insult, when in reality it’s far from it.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Don’t think a lot of people appreciate the origins of this one, as “berk” is now seen as a soft insult, when in reality it’s far from it.

Same as Grumble and Grunt.

 

[Baldseagull]

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".

I heard Booker utter a similar phrase, but this time it was "Holy Ghost"

 

[atfc village]

Yep used to send slang postcards to mates when on holiday . Away next week ,so i shall be enjoying a few Doddies on the David wearing my Carls . I hope there aren't too many Big Daddies or Tick tocks about

 

[Baldseagull]

Are you having a bubble ?

That's usually Bubble and Squeak - Greek. Hence George Michael was known as the Bubble with the stubble.

 

[Baldseagull]

Brassic.......

Not correcting you, that is how it's said by Cockneys, but for those trying to work it out, Boracic Lint.

 

[Motogull]

Don’t think a lot of people appreciate the origins of this one, as “berk” is now seen as a soft insult, when in reality it’s far from it.

I particularly enjoy telling people the origin after they use it.

Then I'll go for a gypsy's.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Are you having a giraffe?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Then I'll go for a gypsy's.

I like Johnny Cash - slash, only heard this used by Del on Only Fools & Horses though.

 

[Sirnormangall]

More polite to say Pony.

Or “going for a Tom”

 

[BN9 BHA]

Or “going for a Tom”

I tell my puppy to go outside for a Tom Tit

 

[Motogull]

You can't call someone a raspberry these days.

 

[Sirnormangall]

I tell my puppy to go outside for a Tom Tit

Which simply proves that even dogs can understand cockney rhyming slang

 

[BN9 BHA]

Which simply proves that even dogs can understand cockney rhyming slang

I just need to learn some rhyming slang for don’t chew my trainers

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

In our house we use the following on an at least weekly basis:
Jockys
Plates
Mincers
Apples
Tin
Thrupennys
Barnet
Butchers
Tom

and several others I

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Are you having a giraffe?

Are you having a giraffe?

NO, NO and thrice no! - this is NOT proper Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang is based on two words that go together, the second word rhymes with the word intended but is never said.
So "laugh" is "tin" [or sometimes "bubble" - so "you're 'aving a tin" [bath] = laugh
"Giraffe" is only one word and sounds like laugh - but is a non-cockney attempt to speak the lingo

Anyone who uses "Giraffe" to mean laugh is an imposter and should be called out ...

 

[Baldseagull]

I just need to learn some rhyming slang for don’t chew my trainers

Get yer Hampsteads off me Claire Rayners!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I don’t talk to Connaughts

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

NO, NO and thrice no! - this is NOT proper Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang is based on two words that go together, the second word rhymes with the word intended but is never said.
So "laugh" is "tin" [or sometimes "bubble" - so "you're 'aving a tin" [bath] = laugh
"Giraffe" is only one word and sounds like laugh - but is a non-cockney attempt to speak the lingo

Anyone who uses "Giraffe" to mean laugh is an imposter and should be called out ...

Bubble is slang for a Greek person isn’t it?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Bubble is slang for a Greek person isn’t it?

It’s both

Bubble bath - laugh

Bubble and squeak - Greek