"having any connection to the murders, but her plan is revealed on her projection screen, resulting in her arrest. Oscar Lomax (Steve Pemberton) is a blind millionaire from Ilkley, West Yorkshire. He lives in a vast mansion with support coming only from Michael Fry (Daniel Kaluuya), who helps Lomax as community service. Lomax calls Michael ""Tea leaf"" because of his criminal background, ""tea leaf"" being cockney rhyming slang for ""thief."" Lomax spends his time collecting plush toys which he calls ""commodities"" and his ""Holy of Holies"", keeping them in a locked room. He carries a blue Club biscuit with him"
"Cockney Wanker Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in ""Viz"" based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang (often slang invented by the writers) and spends his days drinking and selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by from an East End market stall. Another of Wanker's specialities is trading used cars. Playing upon the stereotype of the indigenous population of London being fantasists, Wanker often buys a car, sells it back to the same person, for the same amount of money, then declares the transaction to have been ""A nice little"
"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),"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"they would lie and say ""I'm taking wine"" and the response would be ""No, you're taking the piss"" to express disbelief. Taking the piss Taking the piss is a Commonwealth term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be joking, or to be unreasonable. It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. It is not to be confused with ""taking a piss"", which refers to the act of urinating. Taking the Mickey (Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang), taking the Mick"
"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"
"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"
"Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word ""coney"" (sometimes spelled ""conny""), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice in medieval and Renaissance England in which devious people on the street would try to con or cheat vulnerable or gullible pedestrians. The term appears in ""The Taming of the Shrew"" and ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" by William Shakespeare, and in the John Florio translation of Montaigne's essay, ""Of the Cannibals."" The term was first used in print by"
"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"
"broadcasting, and the media began to speak of a new standard called Estuary English, but most linguists rejected this analysis and the term is less frequently used now. The earliest recorded use of the term is 1362 in passus VI of William Langland's ""Piers Plowman"", where it is used to mean ""a small, misshapen egg"", from Middle English ""coken"" + ""ey"" (""a cock's egg""). Concurrently, the mythical land of luxury Cockaigne (attested from 1305) appeared under a variety of spellings—including Cockayne, Cocknay, and Cockney—and became humorously associated with the English capital London. The present meaning of cockney comes from its"
"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"
"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"
"Theft In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, library theft, and fraud (obtaining money under false pretenses). In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny. Someone who carries out an act of or makes a career of theft is known as a thief. The act of"
"implicated in various crimes. Ike Clanton was prone to drinking heavily and threatened the Earp brothers numerous times. Tombstone resident George Parson wrote in his diary, ""A Cowboy is a rustler at times, and a rustler is a synonym for desperado—bandit, outlaw, and horse thief."" The ""San Francisco Examiner"" wrote in an editorial, ""Cowboys [are] the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country ... infinitely worse than the ordinary robber."" At that time during the 1880s in Cochise County, it was an insult to call a legitimate cattleman a ""Cowboy."" The Cowboys teamed up for various crimes and"
"Backberend and Handhabend In Anglo-Saxon law, backberend (also spelled backberende or back-berande) was a term applied to a thief who was found having the stolen goods in his possession. The term is derived from ""bearing [a thing] upon the back"" and was customarily used with ""handhabend"". Handhabend (also spelled hand-habend or hand-habende) was a term applied to a thief who was found having the stolen goods in his possession. ""Handhabend"" is derived from ""having [a thing] in his hand"". The thief himself was a hontfongenethef, meaning ""a thief taken with handhabend""; i. e., captured while holding the thing stolen in"
"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""""."
"McKenzie, typically refers to an uncouth, beer-swilling male and is a euphemism for ""loser"" coming from the earlier days of hockey played on an outdoor rink and the losing team would have to hose down the ice after the game so it refreezes smooth. Bob & Doug also popularized the use of ""Beauty, eh"", another western slang term which may be used in variety of ways. This describes something as being of interest, of note, signals approval or simply draws attention to it. A ""Newf"" or ""Newfie"" is someone from Newfoundland and Labrador; sometimes considered derogatory. In Newfoundland, the term"
"(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'"
"Moll Flanders), and to Australia later on. Pickpocketing Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim without them noticing the theft at the time. It may involve considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection. A thief who works in this manner is known as a pickpocket. Pickpockets and other thieves, especially those working in teams, sometimes apply distraction, such as asking a question or bumping into the victim. These distractions sometimes require sleight of hand, speed, misdirection and other types of skills. Pickpockets may be found in"
"people from all over the East End, inner East London and occasionally beyond self-identify as Cockneys. The linguistic use of Cockney is more identifiable, with lexical borrowings from Yiddish, Romani, and costermonger slang, and a distinctive accent that features T-glottalization, a loss of dental fricatives and diphthong alterations, amongst others. The accent is said to be a remnant of early English London speech, modified by the many immigrants to the area. The Cockney accent has suffered a long decline, beginning with the introduction in the 20th century of received pronunciation, the more recent adoption of Estuary English, which itself contains"
"Tosher A tosher is someone who scavenges in the sewers, a sewer-hunter, especially in London during the Victorian era. The word tosher was also used to describe the thieves who stripped valuable copper from the hulls of ships moored along the Thames. The related slang term ""tosh"" referred to valuables thus collected, both are of unknown origin. ""Tosher"" was also recorded from a slightly earlier period as undergraduates' slang for ""an unattached or non-collegiate student at a university having residential colleges."" A similar-sounding term from the same period, ""tosheroon"" has been applied to a tosher in error, but denotes a"
"the term in the line ""I'm a clever banker's face, with just a letter out of place.” In live performances, singer Bruce Dickinson would change to an explicit mention: ""I'm a clever wanker's face, just a banker out of place."" In January 2015 the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson described British-born jihadists as ""pornography-obsessed inadequates who only turn to radical Islam when they fail to make it with girls...They are literally wankers"". Cockney Wanker is a long running character in ""Viz"", based on a stereotypical male Cockney. Hard rock (formerly glam metal) band Vixen's 1998 album ""Tangerine"" contains an"
"suburban London and into the Home Counties - in particular the London Borough of Havering and throughout Essex county. Today Cockney-speaking areas include parts of Ilford, Dagenham, Barking, Billericay, Brentwood, Romford, Chigwell, Cheshunt, Brimsdown, Loughton, Harlow, Basildon, Thurrock. Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and occasionally use rhyming slang. The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney, and the BBC made another recording in 1999 which showed how the accent had changed. John Camden Hotten, in his ""Slang Dictionary"" of 1859, makes reference to ""their use of a peculiar slang language"" when"
"Buck English Buck English was an American Old West outlaw, and one of Lake County, California's most notorious thieves and stagecoach robbers toward the end of the 19th century. Born Lawrence Buchanen English, he soon received the nickname ""Buck."" The English family feuded with the Durbin family for years, which led to three of Buck's brothers dying. When Buck was thirteen, he became obligated to take revenge on the Durbin family. Unlike Black Bart, Lake County's other notorious thief, Buck was rash and openly flaunted his overconfident capacity. He was only 22 years old when he and a companion held"
"Buck English Buck English was an American Old West outlaw, and one of Lake County, California's most notorious thieves and stagecoach robbers toward the end of the 19th century. Born Lawrence Buchanen English, he soon received the nickname ""Buck."" The English family feuded with the Durbin family for years, which led to three of Buck's brothers dying. When Buck was thirteen, he became obligated to take revenge on the Durbin family. Unlike Black Bart, Lake County's other notorious thief, Buck was rash and openly flaunted his overconfident capacity. He was only 22 years old when he and a companion held"
"had been victimized by Kinney complained to a local beat cop, who exclaimed, ""That little Kinney sneaked the papers!"" The policeman spoke with a thick Irish brogue, so ""sneaked"" came out sounding like ""snaked"", hence Kinney's nickname. Despite his slender build and outgoing nature, Kinney was known as a tough street fighter. He and his family lived on Collins Street, across from the Egan family. Thomas Egan, six years younger than Tom, grew to be his best friend. In the late 1880s, Snake Kinney was a neighborhood pool hustler and all-around crook when he entertained the idea for running for"
"transferred to the hills, but without more evidence this cannot be proven’. The fell’s name quite often causes mirth because of its slight rudeness and reference to sexual slang. Cockup means a mess-up in the British English language, and the fell was visited by British television personality Denis Norden for one edition of his TV show ""It'll be Alright on the Night"", a programme which consisted of out-takes from film and television and which he called ‘Cockups’. The programme was called ""Alright on the Night’s Cockup Trip"" and was broadcast in 1996. The fell's name has also been adopted for"
"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"