I teach a weekly lesson on slang from various English speaking countries, if you want to PM me your email address I can email you all the work sheets I have used over the last 3-4 months.
There are some really odd slang terms used around the world.
Your greg is your neck, never known it to be cheque?
ie; er mate, get that lager down your greg
& as someone said above, rarely do you use the full phrase, just the unryhming part normally, like "have a butchers at that" rather than "have a butchers hook at that"
Those bookie terms, neves, ruof, cockle, bottle, ching etc thought that was just general terms for numbers, not originated from bookies?
i prefer to use the one's i've made up myself than the old east end cheese - feel like a right nob trotting all that old guff out - 'Be back in a minute, just got to pop up the apple and pairs' - no thanks - leave that to the pie and mash boys at millwall and west ham.
Nursery Rhyme 'Pop goes the Weasel' was a cautionary tale about poverty. to 'Pop' was to pawn something - in this case the 'Weasel' – a mis-pronunciation of Whistle (see above). As with most rhyming slang, the rhyming part remains unsaid to confuse anyone not ITK! Apples = Stairs One for the Frog = One for the road etc.
Steve Bould's-moulds (as in footie boots) Beans on toast-post (from the Paul Merson school of slang) "You're 'avin a giraffe"-having a laugh Lemon barley-charlie/coke
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Been to wash me barnet in the eiffel
What took you so long?
Had a mexican and brushed me hampsteads. And needed a pony.
I hope you washed your gregory. Now do up your dicky, straighten your peckham and off to school
I've got no bangers. Can you lend me an ayrton?
Not on your nelly
ie; er mate, get that lager down your greg
& as someone said above, rarely do you use the full phrase, just the unryhming part normally, like "have a butchers at that" rather than "have a butchers hook at that"
Those bookie terms, neves, ruof, cockle, bottle, ching etc thought that was just general terms for numbers, not originated from bookies?
Blud - Anyone
Fam - Anyone
Shank - Knife
Innit - Normally at the end of sentence
The rest I can't understand, Its normallyin a foreign language.
a barclays or a sherman - w*nk
Have you got an Ayrton? - tenner (senna)
Pam Shriver, lady gadvia, deep sea diver - fiver
i prefer to use the one's i've made up myself than the old east end cheese - feel like a right nob trotting all that old guff out - 'Be back in a minute, just got to pop up the apple and pairs' - no thanks - leave that to the pie and mash boys at millwall and west ham.
to 'Pop' was to pawn something - in this case the 'Weasel' – a mis-pronunciation of Whistle (see above).
As with most rhyming slang, the rhyming part remains unsaid to confuse anyone not ITK!
Apples = Stairs
One for the Frog = One for the road
etc.
Beans on toast-post (from the Paul Merson school of slang)
"You're 'avin a giraffe"-having a laugh
Lemon barley-charlie/coke
Bob Boulder - Shoulder
Piece - Fine looking lady
Thats more than enough.
Cheers again.
"back un" - back and front - c***
"Germaine" - as in greer- gear
Aris from Aristotle
Aristotle = Bottle
Bottle and Glass
Kermit from Kermit the Frog
Frog and Toad = Road
I am going down the Kermit
Dog and Bone = Telephone