"Frankie Fryer Frankie Fryer (also spelled as Franky Fryer) is a character on the British Sky Sports association football television programme, ""Soccer AM"". He is played by Adam Smith. The character is designed as an imitation of London born actor, Danny Dyer. The character speaks with a cockney accent and uses cockney rhyming slang. The character also wears a wig, brown jacket and jewellery. Fryer hosts ""Soccer AM""'s ""Away Days"" segment, where the character visits various football locations in the United Kingdom and abroad and gives an overview of attractions in the city where ""Away Days"" is being filmed. The"
"purchase a wood burning range from a junk trader called Sam, who litters his language with phony slang in hopes of getting higher payment. He comes up with a fake story as to the origin of Cockney Rhyming slang and is caught out rather quickly. In ""The Jeffersons"" season 2 (1976) episode ""The Breakup: Part 2"", Mr. Bentley explains Cockney rhyming slang to George Jefferson, in that ""whistle and flute"" means ""suit"", ""apples and pears"" means ""stairs"", ""plates of meat"" means ""feet"". The use of rhyming slang was also prominent in ""Mind Your Language"" (1977–79), ""Citizen Smith"" (1977–80), ""Minder"" (1979–94),"
"example, in Australian slang, the term for an English person is ""pommy"", which has been proposed as a rhyme on ""pomegranate"" rhyming with ""immigrant"". Rhyming slang as such is not in general use in the United States, but a few notable exceptions include: Rhyming slang is continually evolving, and new phrases are introduced all the time; new personalities replace old ones—pop culture introduces new words—as in ""I haven't a Scooby"" (from Scooby Doo, the eponymous cartoon dog of the cartoon series) meaning ""I haven't a clue"". Rhyming slang is often used as a substitute for words regarded as taboo, often"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"name was adopted into the rhyming slang used by the Cockneys of the East end of London to mean 'own' as in 'on his own' (from Tod Sl'oan'). Hence, someone 'on his tod' is alone. Tod Sloan (jockey) James Forman ""Tod"" Sloan (August 10, 1874 - December 21, 1933) was an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955. Sloan was born in Bunker Hill, Indiana, near Kokomo, the son of a Union Army soldier. He was a tiny and frail child, and after his mother died when"
"of of in most other accents of English. The merger is responsible for the ""Brooklynese"" stereotypes of ""bird"" sounding like ""boid"" and ""thirty-third"" sounding like ""toity-toid"". This merger is known for the word ""soitanly"", used often by the Three Stooges comedian Curly Howard as a variant of ""certainly"" in comedy shorts of the 1930s and 1940s. The songwriter Sam M. Lewis, a native New Yorker, rhymed ""returning"" with ""joining"" in the lyrics of the English-language version of ""Gloomy Sunday"". This merger did not however exist in the South, which maintained a distinction between the two phonemes due to often having"
"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"
"and toad"" (the main road) and ""apples and pears (stairs), as well as many more obscure examples, e.g. ""Battle of the Nile"" (a tile, a vulgar term for a hat), ""Duke of York"" (take a walk), and ""Top of Rom"" (home). It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals. If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community, or to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in marketplaces in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying,"
"by the names ""Bundle"" or ""Pile-on."" ""Tinny"" is also a term for audio which lacks resonance, resembling a piece of tin being struck. The phrase is also referenced in the Monty Python sketch ""Woody and Tinny Words"" where Graham Chapman describes various seemingly-random words as being ""tinny"" or ""woody"" with the former utterance inducing great discomfort in his daughter. In the town of Bathgate, West Lothian, ""Tinnie"" often refers to an aluminium can of Tennent's Lager. ""Here Oj, gies a tinnie o'er mate"". Tinnie The slang or colloquial term tinnie or tinny has a variety of meanings, generally derived from"
"Lehrer's satirical songs that were written in the 1950s and 1960s, known for their ""witty naughtiness"". Stage directions suggest each actor use their own name and wait onstage in a bar area while the others perform. Two cast recordings have been released, one by the original London cast (Robin Ray, Jonathan Adams, Martin Connor and Tricia George), the other much rarer one by the Canadian cast. The following two songs are optional: Tomfoolery Tomfoolery (or Tom Foolery) is a musical revue based on lyrics and music that American mathematician, songwriter, and satirist Tom Lehrer first performed in the 1950s and"
"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"
"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"
"direction. ""Goofus"" is a possible origin of the word ""doofus,"" slang for a person prone to foolishness or stupidity, perhaps influenced by the German word ""doof"", meaning stupid. The Goofus bird is one of many fearsome critters of lumberjack folklore, fantastical beasts that were said to inhabit the frontier wilderness of North America, and is an example of a 'tall tale', a story with unbelievable elements related as if it were factual. Goofus bird The Goofus bird is a mythical, backwards-flying bird, originating in lumberjack folklore in North America. It is also known variously as the ""Filla-ma-loo bird"" or the"
"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"
"use among rural Englishmen (attested in 1520) as a pejorative term for effeminate town-dwellers, from an earlier general sense (encountered in ""the Reeve's Tale"" of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" ) of a ""cokenay"" as ""a child tenderly brought up"" and, by extension, ""an effeminate fellow"" or ""a "". This may have developed from the sources above or separately, alongside such terms as """" and """" which both have the sense of ""to make a ... or darling of"", ""to indulge or pamper"". By 1600, this meaning of cockney was being particularly associated with the Bow Bells area. In 1617, the"
"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"
"is a comedy attempting to provide a representation of Cockney life in the East End of London in the early 1960s. A collection of typical characters such as people at the local pub, local tarts, Jewish tradesmen, spivs and others are portrayed, (and possibly larger than life). The dialogue is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang, London Yiddish, and thieves' cant. ""The New York Times"", in its review said ""this isn't a picture for anyone with a logical mind or an ear for language. The gabble of cockney spoken here is as incomprehensible as the reasoning of those who speak"
"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"
"to the extent that the association with the taboo word becomes unknown over time. """" (often used to mean ""foolish person"") originates from the most famous of all fox hunts, the ""Berkeley Hunt"" meaning ""cunt""; """" (often used in the context ""what you said is rubbish"") originates from ""cobbler's awls"", meaning ""balls"" (as in testicles); and ""hampton"" meaning ""prick"" (as in penis) originates from ""Hampton Wick"" (a place in London). Lesser taboo terms include ""pony and trap"" for ""crap"" (as in defecate, but often used to denote nonsense or low quality); to blow a raspberry (rude sound of derision) from"
"(1937). It was not until the 1950s that slang began to make regular appearances in books and in the relatively new media of motion pictures and television. There are a number of different varieties of British slang, arguably the best known of which is Rhyming slang. Chiefly associated with cockney speech spoken in the East End of London, words are replaced with a phrase which rhymes. For example: ""plates of meat"" for ""feet"", or ""twist and twirl"" for ""girl"". Often only the first word is used, so ""plates"" and ""twist"" by themselves become the colloquialisms for ""feet"" and ""girl"". Thieves'"
"Queen Mary, University of London concluded that Cockney rhyming slang was dying out because children in London are greatly exposed to words and phrases from outside cultures. Teenagers especially are incorporating into their vocabularies new words borrowed from outside the UK. This new slang is also influenced by new technologies, especially mobile phone SMS (short message service) or text messages. While ""dat"" and ""dere"" may be of Afro-Caribbean origin along with many other terms, their use in text messages as easier-to-key options to ""that"" and ""there/their"" cement them as slang in common usage. The large number of immigrant communities and"
"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""""."
"spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words. Most of the words changed by this process are nouns, but a few are adjectival e.g. ""bales"" of cotton (rotten), or the adjectival phrase ""on one's tod"" for ""on one's own"", after Tod Sloan, a famous jockey. Rhyming slang is believed to have originated in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s. According to a Routledge's slang dictionary from"
"this nonsense technique, despite Humpty Dumpty's later clear explanation of some of the unclear words within it: Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words, as in John Lennon's ""The Faulty Bagnose"": Here, ""awoy"" fills the place of ""away"" in the expression ""far away"", but also suggests the exclamation ""ahoy"", suitable to a voyage. Likewise, ""worled"" and ""gurled"" suggest ""world"" and ""girl"" but have the ""-ed"" form of a past-tense verb. ""Somforbe"" could possibly be a noun, possibly a slurred verb phrase. In the sense that it is a slurred verb, it could be the"
"This euphemism stems from an advertising campaign for the Horlicks malt drink, where people were seen to be shouting """"Horlicks!"""" in a loud voice, to give vent to stress or frustration. Eric Morecambe was also known to cough """"Horlicks!"""" behind his hand on The Morecambe and Wise Show. ""Rollocking"" is sometimes used as a euphemism for """"bollocking"""". A ""rollocking bollocking"" may be delivered by an electorate. The 2007 ""Concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"" quotes ""bollards"" as meaning ""testicles"" and that it is a play on the word bollocks. The play ""Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery"","
"Tomboy A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of a boy, including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature and are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys. ""Tomboy"", according to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" (""OED""), ""has been connected with connotations of rudeness and impropriety"" throughout its use. The ""OED"" dates the first use of the term to 1592, but an earlier use is recorded in ""Ralph Roister Doister"", which is believed to date from 1553, and was published in 1567. Author Michelle"