donkey is Cockney slang for Stupid.
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What is a bunny in Cockney slang?
Fluffy Bunny is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Money!
What is a monkey in Cockney slang?
The most widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include ‘pony’ which is £25, a ‘ton’ is £100 and a ‘monkey’, which equals £500.
What’s Cockney rhyming slang for breasts?
Willets is Cockney slang for Breasts.
What is a lemon in Cockney?
Lemon and Lime is Cockney slang for Crime.
What is Jack and Danny slang for?
Cue the memes!
“Jack and Dani means something in Cockney rhyming slang….. Fanny. It means fanny.”
Why do Cockneys call a watch a kettle?
The term means watch, which stemmed from a ‘fob’ watch which was a pocket watch attached to the body with a small chain. The kettle used to boil on the hob of a stove… hence the rhyme.
Why is 200 called a bottle?
bottle = two pounds, or earlier tuppence (2d), from the cockney rhyming slang: bottle of spruce = deuce (= two pounds or tuppence). Spruce probably mainly refers to spruce beer, made from the shoots of spruce fir trees which is made in alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties.
What does Kermit mean in cockney rhyming slang?
Kermit is Cockney slang for Road.
What is a cockle in Cockney slang?
Cockle is Cockney slang for 10 pounds (tenner).
Why are glasses called bins in Cockney?
On the subject of ‘bins’ this expression is the cockney rhyming slang for glasses, as in reading glasses, so if someone is having trouble looking up a number in a telephone book you might say put on your ‘bins’.
What is Cockney slang for brother?
One and t’Other is Cockney slang for Brother.
What is a tea leaf slang?
Tea Leaf is Cockney slang for Thief.
What does keep it Lemmon mean?
Informal. a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory; dud: His car turned out to be a lemon.
What does sat like a lemon mean?
To remain uselessly in a
(colloquial) To remain uselessly in a place or situation, without taking any action.
What does a Toby mean in Cockney slang?
“”Toby” means “road” in this context, but it isn’t rhyming slang. It seems to come from about 1811. It is derived from the language of Irish travellers who use the word “tober” to mean road. Another related expression is the toby meaning highway robbery. High toby meaning highway robbery on horseback.
Why is a safe called a Peter?
Peter is slang for ‘safe’, as in money box. The origin of the word is unclear. Some sources say it comes from the same root as the Biblical St Peter – the Greek word for rock Petra, since safes are supposed to rock solid.
What is a Jimmy in Cockney slang?
Source: Brewer’s Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable Author(s): Russ Willey. ‘Piddle’ in cockney rhyming slang, meaning to urinate.
Why is a house called a gaff?
Then there’s the British slang meaning of gaff for the place where one lives (“come round my gaff for a coffee”), which is almost certainly derived from the use of gaff in the eighteenth-century to mean a fair, and later a cheap music-hall or theatre (as in the infamous penny gaff) and which probably comes from the
What is Cockney rhyming slang for bed?
Uncle Ned is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Bed!
What is slice in Cockney slang?
“I called someone a ‘slice’, in cockney rhyming slang it means you are not all with it. So they said ‘hold on, slice? ‘, the headphones come off, and then they say ‘you can have slice’.” A ‘slice’ is absolutely a thing ( Rex)