Cockney "Modern Poetry" Rhyming slang. Bedlington (Terrier) = chair. Typical usage - "Pull up a Bedlin'ton and rest yer ol' time an' 'alfs" (time and a halfs = feet). Does anyone know any others?
There are billions. Berk = Berkley Hunt = ..... J arthur- J arthur rank = **** apple and pears= stairs frog and toad = road I used to speak it really well, but the skills stagnated living in Aus .
Never heard chairs called "Bedingtons". Usually they were called "tony" for "tony blair". Feet are usually "plates" for "plates of meat". Would post more, but got to go fly a kite.
Sadly, I was taking the apple crumble = rise, but out of arty modern poetry that doesn't rhyme because it is too busy being arty and "challenging." A bit like some modern art. One of my favourite riverside walks has just been infested with a load of modern sculptures. While some of the animal sculptures are quite nice, "exhibits" such as "pillar" (which is basically a stick) and the disembodied Buddha head in the stream (called "keystone") are lost on me. I wanted to get a sign and write "tree" on it, and put it next to one of the trees. You think there'd be enough to look at with all the trees, the river, the wood anenomes, chaffinches, mallard ducks, mandarin ducks, goosanders, red kites etc.
Sorry, never heard of them either. Feet are plates or dogs (Me dogs are barking) Dont really hear people use a word for chair but if they do its Burke and Hare or maybe a here and there. A Yorkshire person tellin us how to bunny in Cockney - are you havin a bubble?
Lets have a butchers hook at your bristol city's! You probably dont have to be a diamond geezer to desipher that one!
You can't start a thread on cockney rhyming slang and not expect Bristol Cities to get a mention My personal favourite is Brahms and List.. :Angel:
With many thanks to Ronnie Barker, part of the Cockney Rhyming Slang Vicar sketch, " he got a Lady Godiva for picking up a small brown Richard the Third off the frog and toad, he was a bit elephants' trunk and Mozart. His trouble could afford to buy some new early doors now. The richard the third flew off to his nest" What we miss on the forum is the audience gasp of disgust as he picks up the small brown Richard the Third and puts in on a wall.
