Posted Aug 10, 2005 by cassiar1
You requested additional slangs for your list. I think you missed these:
North & south - Mouth
Skin & Blister - Sister
Mutt & Jeff - Deaf
Brahms & Liszt - Pissed
Gregory Pecks - Specs
Borassic Lint - Skint
Bertie Woofter - Poofter
Potato Mould - Cold (as in 'it's a bit taters in here'
Elbows & Knees - Trees
Gold Watch - Scotch (whisky)
Pride & Joy - Boy
Dicky Dirt - Shirt
Pots & Pans - Hands
Peckham Rye - Tie
Hampstead Heath - Teeth
Jugs of Beers - Ears
Errol Flynn - Chin
Almond Rocks - Socks
Rhythm & Blues - Shoes
Ones & Twos - Shoes
Bird Lime - Time (Prison - Doing Bird)
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Posted Sep 30, 2005 by MiddleKibLovian
I was under the impression that a gregory peck was a neck, i thought that's what it said in the song from The Italian Job...
'We are the self-preservation society,
The self preservation society.
Put on your almond rocks and daisy roots
Brush your Hampstead Heath, wear your whistle-and-flute
Lots of lah-de-dahs and Cockneys here
Look alive and get out of here
Get your skates on mate, get your skates on mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, hey!
Drop your plates of meat right on the seat
This is the self-preservation society,
The self-preservation society. '
Which are lyrics i borrowed from another h2g2 article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A500509) in that same article there is also a translation bit that says gregory peck means neck:
Translation:
Almond rocks: Socks
Daisy roots: boots
Hampstead Heath: teeth
Whistle-and-flute: suit
Gregory Peck: Neck
Plates of meat: feet
Although i suppose there could be more than one meaning to this my family (who are cockneys) have always used it in the context to mean neck.
Anyway...just thought i'd say...
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Posted Jan 4, 2008 by Ih-Dschieh
There's still missing:
ginger beer=queer
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Posted May 11, 2008 by Vestboy
What about the very traditional one
Cock: cock sparra (sparrow)= Marra (a word meaning close mate/friend which is now only heard in the north of England. When you can only find one sock you look for its marra.
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Posted May 11, 2008 by Vestboy
It might be spelt marrer on second thoughts.
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Posted May 12, 2008 by Ih-Dschieh
Maybe derived from marriage? Or vice-versa?
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Posted May 13, 2008 by Vestboy
perhaps the same root.
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Posted Sep 12, 2008 by hoxtonsteve
Not to forget Todd Sloane = all alone; I went there all on me todd
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Posted Sep 12, 2008 by hoxtonsteve
Tod Sloane (spelling according to Wikipedia) was an American jockey who enjoyed considerable success in England around the turn of the 19th century, and was something of an early sporting celebrity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Sloan_(jockey)
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