What is the Cockney slang for brother?

One and t'Other is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Brother!

What is Cockney rhyming slang for sister?

Sock and Blister is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Sister!

What is a Toby Cockney?

""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.

What is a Richard in Cockney rhyming slang?

Richard the Third is Cockney slang for Bird.

What is a Peter in Cockney slang?

Peter is slang for 'safe', as in money box.

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What does Tommy Tank mean?

Tommy Tank is Cockney slang for Bank.

What is a Ching in Cockney slang?

Ching is Cockney Rhyming Slang for 5! Lilley and Skinner.

What is a Ruby Murray in Cockney rhyming slang?

A Ruby Murray – or a Ruby, for short – is a well-known Cockney phrase for a curry.

What is a Richard the Third?

Richard III (1452–85) was the last Yorkist king of England, whose death at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 signified the end of the Wars of the Roses and marked the start of the Tudor age.

Whats a Richard the 3rd?

Richard III, also called (1461–83) Richard Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester, (born October 2, 1452, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England—died August 22, 1485, near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire), the last Plantagenet and Yorkist king of England.

What is a cherry Hogg?

Cherry Hogg is Cockney slang for Dog.

What is drum in Cockney?

Drum and Bass is Cockney slang for Place.

The word drum was originally used to describe a room or prison cell or even a road. It then became confined to only mean the home.

What does lemon mean Cockney rhyming?

Lemon and Lime is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Crime!

What is Bob Martins slang for?

Bob Martins Rhyming slang for vitamins, named after the UK's pet healthcare brand.

What does custard mean in Cockney?

“No one's watching the custard” means “no one's watching the TV.” “Custard and jelly” rhymes with “telly.”

What is skin and blister slang for?

Skin-and-blister definition

Filters. (Cockney rhyming slang) Sister.

Is Queen Elizabeth related to King Richard III?

Queen Elizabeth II is related to Richard III, but not through direct descent. The current monarch is a direct descendant of James I, who in turn was a...

Why is it called King Richard?

Venus Williams speaks to ABC's Zohreen Shah about "King Richard," the biopic that tells the story of her life growing up. The title of the film alludes to the dad Richard Williams, who famously had his youngest daughters' fate as tennis greats mapped out before they were even born.

Was there a King Richard?

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period.

Why do Cockneys say Gordon Bennett?

Cockney rhyming slang for 'beers'. When you encourage someone to do something risky, you're egging them on, a term that comes from the Old Norse word eggja, meaning 'to incite'. Gordon Bennett Jr was the multi-millionaire son of the founder of the New York Herald.

What is rhyming slang for curry?

Ruby Murray is Cockney slang for Curry.

A popular and well used expression across London, where Indian food such as curry have been enormously popular since the 1970s. In fact Ruby Murray has become so synomyous with curry, that many London Indian restaurants are named simply "The Ruby".

Why do they call curry a ruby?

Legacy. Murray's popularity led to her name being adopted in Cockney rhyming slang as a rhyme for "curry". The phrase "have a ruby" appears in various episodes of the BBC TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses.

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.

What is a Doris slang?

Doris definition

(UK, slang) One's girl friend, wife or significant other. pronoun. (Cockney rhyming slang) Gay.

Why do Cockneys call glasses bins?

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'.