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help| Rhyming slang is a form of slang in which a word is replaced by another word or term that rhyme with it. In some cases the rhyme is hidden, so that the association of the original word and the slang word is not obvious to the uninitiated. For example, in Cockney speech "ball" means walk, for reasons that will be explained below. Rhyming slang exists to some extent in many languages. In English, rhyming... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang in which a word is replaced by another word or term that rhymes with it. In some cases the rhyme is hidden, so that the association of the original word and the slang word is not obvious to the uninitiated. -
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Australian English vocabulary
Look up Appendix:Australian rhyming slang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. -
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Rhyming slang ... English language in England -
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Fruit (slang)
Out of the East End of London traditional Cockney rhyming slang developed, which works by taking two words that are related through a short phrase and using the first word to stand for a word that rhymes with the second. -
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List of slang terms for police officers
Bluebottle: A British term for policeman that may have derived from Cockney rhyming slang. -
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List of South African slang words
china/chine - a friend; as in the greeting howzit china (likely origin: Cockney rhyming slang "China plate" (meaning "my mate"); from early British immigrants. -
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London slang
Cockney rhyming slang is the best known form of London slang. -
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List of British words not widely used in the United States
shoemakers; (slang) a weaker version of bollocks, meaning 'nonsense' (often "a load of old cobblers"), from rhyming slang 'cobbler's awls' = balls -
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List of ethnic slurs
Some claim it derives from "Prisoner of Mother England", but it probably derives from pomegranate, rhyming slang for "immigrant, jimmygrant, pommygrant". -
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Bollocks
Sandra Bullocks is occasionally used to approximate rhyming slang -- it does not quite rhyme, but preserves meter and rhythm.
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