"work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull his weight. Originally, a pimp. ""Billy"" — a tin or enamel cooking pot with a lid and wire handle, used outdoors, especially for making tea. It comes from the Scottish dialect word billy meaning ""cooking utensil"". ""Manchester"" (frequently lower-case) – household linen (sheets, pillow cases etc.), as in ""manchester department"" of a department store. From ""Manchester wares"" with exactly the same meaning. Rhyming slang is more common in older generations; it is similar, and in some cases identical, to Cockney rhyming slang, for example ""plates"" (of meat) for ""feet"" and"
"hoose wis furnish'd wi' the best, An' aw dreamt aw just had left the church wi' Mary be me side, When yor clumsy feet completely spoil'd the rest."" KORUS—Keep yor feet still! Geordey, hinny, let's be happy for the neet, &c </poem> Geordie dialect words Keep yor feet still Geordie hinny ""Keep yor feet still! Geordey, hinny"" is a famous Geordie comic song written in the 19th century by Joe Wilson, in a style deriving from music hall. Though the words were by Wilson, it is to be sung to the existing tune of ""Nelly Gray"" (also used for the"
"tool, a spinner's weasel used for measuring in spinning, a piece of silver plate, or that 'weasel and stoat' is Cockney rhyming slang for ""throat"", as in ""Get that down yer Weasel"" meaning to eat or drink something. An alternative meaning which fits better with the theme of ""that's the way the money goes"" involves pawning one's coat in desperation to buy food and drink, as ""weasel (and stoat)"" is more usually and traditionally Cockney rhyming slang for ""Coat"" rather than throat and ""pop"" is a slang word for ""pawn"". ""Pop goes the weasel"" meant pawning a coat. Decent coats"
"Coochee Coochee, coochie or coochi is a term often used as a slang descriptor often used in relation to a belly dance and related types of movement. Most commonly ""coochie"" is used as a cute or slang word for a vagina. Other contexts, the term also applies to a Native American chief as well as to Florida place names, and has been used in popular songs. The term is a slang descriptor often used in relation to a belly dance or wiggling, as in ""Coochie Coochie dance"", ""Hoochee-Coochee"", and the saying ""coochee coochee coo"" when tickling an infant. It is"
"and truncated to ""Aris"". Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a linguist and revivalist, has proposed a distinction between rhyming slang based on sound only, and phono-semantic rhyming slang, which includes a semantic link between the slang expression and its referent (the thing it refers to). An example of rhyming slang based only on sound is the Cockney ""tea leaf"" (thief). An example of phono-semantic rhyming slang is the Cockney ""sorrowful tale"" ((three months in) jail), in which case the person coining the slang term sees a semantic link, sometimes jocular, between the Cockney expression and its referent. The use of rhyming slang has"
"Foot (prosody) The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three, or four syllables in length. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest. The foot might be compared to a bar in musical notation. The English word ""foot"" is a translation of the Latin term ""pes"", plural ""pedes"", which in turn is a translation of"
"as rhyming slang for ""fag"" (i.e. a cigarette). The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit ""Cockney Translation"" by Smiley Culture of South London; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's ""Cockney and Yardie"". London-based artists such as Audio Bullys and Chas & Dave (and others from elsewhere in the UK, such as The Streets, who are from Birmingham) frequently use rhyming slang in their songs. British-born M.C. MF Doom released an ode entitled ""Rhymin' Slang"", after settling in the UK in 2010. The"
"with the words essentially backwards; cool (look), delo (old) and nammow (woman). Out of the East End of London traditional Cockney rhyming slang developed, which works by taking two words that are related through a short phrase and using the first word to stand for a word that rhymes with the second. For instance, the most popular of these rhyming slang phrases used throughout Britain is probably ""telling porkies"" meaning ""lies"" as ""pork pies"" rhymes with lies. ""Alright, me old fruit?"" is an example of this as ""fruit gum"" is translated as meaning ""chum"" (a friend or acquaintance). ""Cassell's Dictionary"
"His 'Smiley' nickname was gained due to his method of chatting up girls at school – he would ask them for a smile. Prior to his recording career he worked as a DJ with many of London's reggae sound systems, most often with the Saxon Studio International system, where he met and worked with a number of other reggae artists, including Maxi Priest, Papa Levi and Tippa Irie. Signed to the London-based reggae record label Fashion Records, his first single ""Cockney Translation"" (1984) was a Jamaican's guide to the East End dialect – '""Cockneys have names like Terry, Arfur and"
"Rhyming slang Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent in the UK, Ireland and Australia. It started in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang. In the United States, especially the criminal underworld of the West Coast between 1880 and 1920, rhyming slang has sometimes been known as Australian slang. The construction of rhyming slang involves replacing a common word with a phrase of two or more words, the last of which rhymes with the original word; then, in almost"
"Cockney Alphabet The Cockney Alphabet, also known as the Surrealist Alphabet, is a humorous recital of the alphabet, parodying the way the alphabet is taught to small children. The humour comes from forming unexpected words and phrases from the names of the various letters of the alphabet. In the 1930s, the comedy double act Clapham and Dwyer recorded the following version: There are many alternative 'definitions' offered for each letter, some of which include: Naming a dog ""Deefer"" (as was common in the '50s) is an example of the reverse of this phenomenon, based on interpreting the line ""D for"
"coochi snorcher"", is one of the slang terms for the vagina. The form ""coochi"" is derived from the more common ""coochie"" of the early 1990s. Coochee Coochee, coochie or coochi is a term often used as a slang descriptor often used in relation to a belly dance and related types of movement. Most commonly ""coochie"" is used as a cute or slang word for a vagina. Other contexts, the term also applies to a Native American chief as well as to Florida place names, and has been used in popular songs. The term is a slang descriptor often used in"
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284. Some sources give differing lyrics. The rhyme is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in ""Songs for the Nursery"", published in London in 1805. This version differed beyond the number twelve, with the lyrics: A version published five years later in ""Gammer Gurton's Garland"" (1810) had the following different lines: According to Henry Bolton, collector of counting rhymes in the 1880s, the rhyme was used in Wrentham,"
"uses this expression during his conversation with Kevin Costner's character. Cock a doodle doo ""Cock a doodle doo"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 17770. The most common modern version is: <poem>Cock a doodle do! My dame has lost her shoe, My master's lost his fiddlestick, And knows not what to do.</poem> The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US) ""crow"". The first full version"
"Massachusetts as early as 1780. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284. Some sources give differing lyrics. The rhyme is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in ""Songs for the Nursery"", published in London in 1805. This version differed beyond the number twelve, with the lyrics: A version published five years later in ""Gammer Gurton's Garland"" (1810) had the following different lines: According to Henry Bolton, collector of counting rhymes in the 1880s, the"
"This Little Piggy ""This Little Piggy"" or ""This Little Pig"" is an English language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19297. The most common modern version is: The rhyme is usually counted out on an infant or toddler's toes, each line corresponding to a different toe, usually starting with the big toe and ending with the little toe. A foot tickle is usually added during the ""Wee...all the way home"" section of the last line. The rhyme can also be seen as a counting rhyme, although the number of each toe (from one"
"I was with my main [hand] in her cunny. I was at a wonderful loss upon it and the girl also..."" ""Cunny"" was probably derived from a pun on ""coney"", meaning ""rabbit"", rather as ""pussy"" is connected to the same term for a cat. (Philip Massinger (1583–1640): ""A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney.'"") Because of this slang use as a synonym for a taboo term, the word ""coney"", when it was used in its original sense to refer to rabbits, came to be pronounced as (rhymes with ""phoney""), instead of the"
"track was released on the 2012 album JJ Doom album ""Keys to the Kuffs"". In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections ""The Man from the Diogenes Club"" (2006) and ""Secret Files of the Diogenes Club"" (2007), where it is explained at the end of each book. In the novel ""Moving Pictures"" by Terry Pratchett, this slang is also frequently used. It is also parodied in Pratchett's ""Going Postal"", which features a geriatric Junior Postman by the name of Tolliver Groat, a speaker"
"Mockney Mockney (a portmanteau of ""mock"" and ""cockney"") is an affected accent and form of speech in imitation of cockney or working-class London speech, or a person with such an accent. A stereotypical mockney speaker comes from an upper-middle-class background. A person speaking with a mockney accent might adopt cockney pronunciation but retain standard grammatical forms, whereas the genuine cockney speaker uses non-standard forms (e.g. negative concord). The first published use of the word according to the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1967. It is an affectation sometimes adopted for aesthetic or theatrical purposes, and at other times just to"
"feet in English are: There are a wide range of names for other types of feet, right up to a choriamb, a four syllable metric foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables and closing with a stressed syllable. The choriamb is derived from some ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Languages which utilize vowel length or intonation rather than or in addition to syllabic accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish or Vedic, often have concepts similar to the iamb and dactyl to describe common combinations of long and short sounds. Each of these types of feet"
"or by criminals to confuse the police (see thieves' cant). The English academic, lexicographer and radio personality Terence Dolan has suggested that rhyming slang may have been invented by Irish immigrants to London ""so the actual English wouldn't understand what they were talking about."" Many examples of rhyming slang are based on locations in London, such as ""Peckham Rye"", meaning ""tie"" (as in necktie), which dates from the late 19th century; ""Hampstead Heath"", meaning ""teeth"" (usually as ""Hampsteads""), which was first recorded in 1887; and ""Barnet Fair"", meaning ""hair"", which dates from the 1850s. By the mid-20th century many rhyming"
"Cockney The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city-dwellers, it was gradually restricted to Londoners, and particularly to ""Bow-bell Cockneys"": those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in the Cheapside district of the City of London. It eventually came to be used to refer to those in London's East End, or to all working-class Londoners generally. Linguistically, cockney English refers to the accent or dialect of English traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. In the 1980s, some features of cockney became more frequent in"
"describing the costermongers of London's East End. In terms of other slang, there are also several borrowings from Yiddish, including ""kosher"" (originally Hebrew, via Yiddish, meaning ""legitimate"") and ""stumm"" ( originally German, via Yiddish, meaning ""quiet""), as well as Romany, for example ""wonga"" (meaning ""money"", from the Romany ""wanga"" meaning coal), and ""cushty"" (Kushty) (from the Romany ""kushtipen"", meaning good). A fake cockney accent is sometimes called mockney. By the 1980s and 1990s, most of the features mentioned above had partly spread into more general south-eastern speech, giving the accent called Estuary English; an Estuary speaker will use some but"
"baseball slang). Foot The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails. The word ""foot"", in the sense of meaning the ""terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal"" comes from ""Old English fot ""foot,"" from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr,"
"Trochee In poetic metre, a trochee (), choree (), or choreus, is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in English, or a heavy syllable followed by a light one in Latin or Greek. In this respect, a trochee is the reverse of an iamb. The adjective form is ""trochaic"". The English word ""trochee"" is itself trochaic since it is composed of the stressed syllable followed by the unstressed syllable . ""Trochee"" comes from French ""trochée"", adapted from Latin ""trochaeus"", originally from the Greek (""trokhós""), ""wheel"", from the phrase ""trokhaios pous"", literally ""running foot"";"
"Kingdom have helped popularise rhyming slang for the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, amidst dispute over a new contract which has been imposed upon them. This was additionally supported in a tweet by James Blunt. Rhyming slang Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent in the UK, Ireland and Australia. It started in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang. In the United States, especially the criminal underworld of the West Coast between 1880 and 1920, rhyming slang"
"of 'Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang', or rather, rhyming slang which ""does not actually rhyme"". Thus, a wig is a 'prunes', from 'syrup of prunes', an obvious parody of the Cockney ""syrup"" from ""syrup of figs -- wig"". There are numerous other parodies, though it has been pointed out that the result is even more impenetrable than a conventional rhyming slang and so may not be quite so illogical as it seems, given the assumed purpose of rhyming slang as a means of communicating in a manner unintelligible to all but the initiated. In Scottish football, a number of clubs have"
"nuanced rhythms of language. Nonetheless, they provide a tool for discerning and describing the underlying structure of poems (especially those employing closed form). The terms fall into two groups: the names of the different feet, and the names of the varying line lengths. The most common feet in poetry written in English are the iamb (weak STRONG), the anapest (weak weak STRONG), the trochee (STRONG weak), and the dactyl (STRONG weak weak). The iamb and anapest are known as ""rising meters"" (they move ""up"" from weak to strong syllables); the trochee and dactyl are ""falling meters"" (they move ""down"" from"
"κλόνις (Latinized ""clonis""); this term is cognate to Latin ""clunis"" ""buttock"", Sanskrit """" ""haunch"" and Lithuanian ""šlaunis"" ""hip, thigh"". The Latin word is found in the alternative Latin name of the sacrum, ""ossa clunium"", as it were ""bones of the buttocks"". Due to the fact that the os sacrum is broad and thick at its upper end, the sacrum is alternatively called ""os latum"", ""broad bone"". In dogs the sacrum is formed by three fused vertebrae. The sacrum in the horse is made up of five fused vertebrae. In birds the sacral vertebrae are fused with the lumbar and some"
"root, despite their apparent similarity, and implied colloquial use of ""pot"" to mean ""head"" in the word ""crackpot"". However, the term ""craze"" is also used to refer to minute cracks in pottery glaze, again suggesting the metaphorical connection of cracked pots with questionable mental health. The term ""kook"" appears to be much more recent. The adjectival-form, ""kooky"", was apparently coined as part of American teenager (or beatnik) slang, which derives from the pejorative meaning of the noun cuckoo. In late 1958, Edd Byrnes first played a hair-combing parking lot attendant called ""Kookie"" on 77 Sunset Strip. The noun-form ""kook"", was"
"name is used in this context as rhyming slang for ""wrong""; ""Green Street Hooligans"" (2005). In ""Margin Call"" (2011), Will Emerson, played by London-born actor Paul Bettany, asks a friend on the telephone, ""How's the trouble and strife?"" (""wife""). Cockneys vs Zombies (2012) mocked the genesis of rhyming slang terms when a Cockney character calls zombies ""Trafalgars"" to even his Cockney fellows' puzzlement; he then explains it thus: """"Trafalgar square - fox and hare - hairy cheek - five day week - weak and feeble - pins and needles - needle and stitch - Abercrombie and Fitch - Abercrombie: zombie""""."
"raspberry tart for ""fart""; ""D'Oyly Carte (an opera company) for ""fart""; ""Jimmy Riddle"" (an American country musician) for ""piddle"" (as in urinate), ""J. Arthur Rank"" (a film mogul), ""Jodrell Bank"" or ""ham shank"" for ""wank"", ""Bristol Cities"" (contracted to 'Bristols') for ""titties"", etc. ""Taking the Mick"" or ""taking the Mickey"" is thought to be a rhyming slang form of ""taking the piss"", where ""Mick"" came from ""Mickey Bliss"". Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included ""Chelsea Blue"", ""Stick of Glue"", ""Four by Two"", ""Buckle my shoe"", and ""Front Wheel Skid"", which is a more arcane form of the insulting term"
"rhyming ""thorns/fawns"" in ""Sleep and Poetry"" and other rhymes which suggested a working class speech. Hunt and Hazlitt were similarly vilified for their diction, but the criticisms were more ideological with them than with Keats. John Wilson Croker perpetuated the term ""Cockney School"" beyond the pages of ""Blackwood's"" in 1818 when he attacked Keats's ""Endymion"" in the ""Quarterly Review."" The term, and the campaign against Hunt and the others, was not a question of aesthetics. It was, instead, an attack on the class background of the authors and their aspirations to the highest level of the literati, and it was,"