English slang word's

Adam and Eve – believe

1. Alan Whickers – knickers

2. apples and pears – stairs

3. Artful Dodger – lodger

4. Ascot Races – braces

5. Aunt Joanna – piano

6. Baked Bean – Queen

7. Baker’s Dozen – Cousin

8. Ball and Chalk – Walk

9. Barnaby Rudge – Judge

10. Barnet Fair – hair

11. Barney Rubble – trouble

12. Battlecruiser – boozer

13. bees and honey – money

14. bird lime – time (in prison)

15. Boat Race – face

16. Bob Hope – soap

17. bottle and glass – arse

18. Brahms and Liszt – pissed (drunk)

19. Brass Tacks – facts

20. Bread and Cheese – sneeze

21. Bread and Honey – money

22. Bricks and Mortar – daughter

23. Bristol City – breasts

24. Brown Bread – dead

25. Bubble and Squeak – Greek

26. Bubble Bath – Laugh

27. butcher’s hook – a look

28. Chalfont St. Giles – piles

29. Chalk Farm – arm

30. china plate – mate (friend)

31. Cock and Hen – ten

32. Cows and Kisses – Missus (wife)

33. currant bun – sun (also The Sun, a British newspaper)

34. custard and jelly – telly (television)

35. Daisy Roots – boots

36. Darby and Joan – moan

37. Dicky bird – word

38. Dicky Dirt – shirt

39. Dinky Doos – shoes

40. dog and bone – phone

41. dog’s meat – feet [from early 20th c.]

42. Duck and Dive – skive

43. Duke of Kent – rent

44. dustbin lid – kid

45. Elephant’s Trunk – drunk

46. Fireman’s Hose – nose

47. Flowery Dell – cell

48. Frog and Toad – road

49. Gypsy’s kiss – piss

50. half-inch – pinch (to steal)

51. Hampton Wick – prick

52. Hank Marvin – starving

53. irish pig – wig

54. Isle of Wight – tights

55. jam-jar – car

56. Jayme Gibbs

57. Jimmy Riddle – piddle

58. joanna – piano (pronounced ‘pianna’ in Cockney)

59. Khyber Pass – arse

60. Kick and Prance – dance

61. Lady Godiva – fiver

62. Laugh n a joke – smoke

63. Lionel Blairs – flares

64. Loaf of Bread – head

65. loop the loop – soup

66. Mickey Bliss – piss

67. Mince Pies – eyes

68. Mork and Mindy – windy’

69. north and south – mouth

70. Orchestra stalls – balls

71. Pat and Mick – sick

72. Peckham Rye – tie

73. plates of meat – feet

74. Pony and Trap – crap

75. Rats and Mice – Dice (gambling)

76. raspberry tart – fart

77. Roast Pork – fork

78. Rosy Lee – tea (drink)

79. Strides ’round the houses – trousers

80. Rub-a-Dub – pub

81. Ruby Murray – curry

82. Sausage Roll – goal

83. septic tank – Yank

84. sherbert (short for sherbert dab) – cab (taxi)

85. Skin and Blister – sister

86. Sky Rocket – pocket

87. Sweeney Todd – flying squad

88. syrup of figs – wig (sic)

89. tables and chairs – stairs

90. tea leaf – thief

91. Tom and Dick – sick

92. tom tit – shit

93. tomfoolery – jewellery

94. Tommy Trinder – window

95. trouble and strife – wife

96. two and eight – state (of upset)

97. Vera Lynn – gin

98. whistle and flute – suit (of clothes)

99. Wonga – cash

Bonus – raspberry ripple – nipple