Cliff and Friends

Speaking Like A Londoner I Cockney Dialect Lesson for English Learners
Description: Welcome to our YouTube channel, where we invite you on an exciting trip to explore the famous Cockney dialect!. Get ready for engaging conversations, essential vocabulary, and interactive exercises.
The host is Liz and she is supported by our guest for today’s lesson, Phil, a Cockney speaker, who will outline the basics of this colourful dialect.
Phil will immerse you in the rich world of Cockney slang, pronunciation, and cultural influence.
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Rhyming slang:
1. Apples and Pears – Stairs
2. Trouble and Strife – Wife
3. Loaf of Bread – Head
4. Dog and Bone – Phone
5. Rub-a-Dub – Pub
6. Tea Leaf – Thief
7. Hampstead Heath – Teeth
8. Boat Race – Face
9. Peckham Rye – Tie
10. Butcher’s Hook – Look
11. Barnet Fair – Hair
12. Rosy Lee – Tea
13. Frog and Toad – Road
14. Adam and Eve – Believe
15. Gregory Peck – Neck
16. Whistle and Flute – Suit
17. Ruby Murray – Curry
18. Dicky Dirt – Shirt
19. Plates of Meat – Feet
20. Mince Pies – Eyes
– Here are some others :
1. Monkey – £500 (£500)
2. Lady Godiva – Fiver (£5)
3. Score – Twenty pounds (£20)
4. Ton – One hundred pounds (£100)
5. Nifty – Fifty pounds (£50)
6. Speckled Hen – Ten pounds (£10)
7. Uncle Ben – Ten pounds (£10)
8. Grand – One thousand pounds (£1,000)
9. Pony – Twenty-five pounds (£25)
10. Cockle – Ten pounds (£10)
11. Bullseye – Fifty pounds (£50)
12. Oliver Twist – Wrist (referring to a wristwatch)
13. Mutton – Button (rshirt button)
14. Irish jig – Wig
15. Rabbit and Pork – Talk
16. Lemon and Lime – Time
17. Plonk – Alcoholic Drink
18. Saucepan – Man
19. Sky Rocket – Pocket
20. Custard and Jelly – Belly
Adam and Eve – believe
Alan Whickers – knickers
apples and pears – stairs
Artful Dodger – lodger
Ascot Races – braces
Aunt Joanna – piano
Baked Bean – Queen
Baker’s Dozen – Cousin
Ball and Chalk – Walk
Barnaby Rudge – Judge
Barnet Fair – hair
Barney Rubble – trouble
Battlecruiser – boozer
bees and honey – money
bird lime – time (in prison)
Boat Race – face
Bob Hope – soap
bottle and glass – arse
Brahms and Liszt – pissed (drunk)
Brass Tacks – facts
Bread and Cheese – sneeze
Bread and Honey – money
Bricks and Mortar – daughter
Bristols – breasts
Brown Bread – dead
Bubble and Squeak – Greek
Bubble Bath – Laugh
butcher’s (hook) – a look
Chalfont St. Giles – piles (medical)
Chalk Farm – arm
china plate – mate (friend)
Cock and Hen – ten
‘Me other half’ – Missus (wife)
currant bun – sun (also The Sun, a British newspaper)
custard and jelly – telly (television)
Daisy Roots – boots
Darby and Joan – moan
Dicky bird – word
Dicky Dirt – shirt
Dinky Doos – shoes
dog and bone – phone
dog’s meat – feet [from early 20th c.]
Duck and Dive – skive
Duke of Kent – rent
dustbin lid – kid
Elephant’s Trunk – drunk
Fireman’s Hose – nose
Flowery Dell – cell
Frog and Toad – road
Gypsy’s kiss – piss
half-inch – pinch (to steal)
Hampton Wick – prick
Hank Marvin – starving
irish pig – wig
Isle of Wight – tights
jam-jar (old style) – car
motuh’ (motor -modern style) – car
Jimmy Riddle – piddle
joanna – piano (pronounced ‘pianna’ in Cockney)
Khyber Pass – arse
Kick and Prance – dance
Lady Godiva – fiver
Laugh n a joke – smoke
Lionel Blairs – flares
Loaf of Bread – head
loop the loop – soup
Mickey Bliss – piss
Mince Pies – eyes
Mork and Mindy – windy’
north and south – mouth
Orchestra stalls – balls
Pat and Mick – sick
Peckham Rye – tie
plates of meat – feet
Pony and Trap – crap
raspberry ripple – nipple
raspberry tart – fart
Roast Pork – fork
Rosy Lee – tea (drink)
Round the Houses – trousers
Rub-a-Dub – pub
Ruby Murray – curry
Sausage Roll – goal
septic tank – Yank
sherbert (short for sherbert dab) – cab (taxi)
Skin and Blister – sister
Sky Rocket – pocket
Sweeney Todd – flying squad
syrup of figs – wig (sic)
tables and chairs – stairs
tea leaf – thief
Tom and Dick – sick
tom tit – shit
tomfoolery – jewellery
Tommy Trinder – window
trouble and strife – wife
two and eight – state (of upset)
Vera Lynn – gin

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