NOW WITH QUIZ! When was the last time you used the slang...

[C]

Bread (money)?




Quiz [my regulars to wind my teenagers up!]

Which ones can you work out:

almonds
plates
minces
boat
apples
skin
butcher's
currant
daisies
dustbin
jugs
mutton
sky
trouble
whistle

Which ones can you work out?






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[Jimbo]

I like to teach my students to say "peanuts" for a small amount of bread.

[Flower]

I don't believe that I've used the term "bread" but have used "dough" in the past and not often.

[Jimbo]

When was the last time you said "Catch a grip, man."

[Rorschach]

I don't think I've ever used it other than ironically. It was already a bit old fashioned and self-consciously 'hippie' by the time I was old enough to use it.

[Jimbo]

Man, we hippies sure catapulted some slang, didn't we.

[C]

I don't believe that I've used the term "bread" but have used "dough" in the past and not often.

Yes - same thing - as we all know it comes from the cockney rhyming slang 'bread and honey'

'Bread' was very much of it's time nationally (in UK) - probably mid 60s to late 70s at best

there used to be a TV series called Bread if anybody remembers that. Interestingly based in Liverpool.

I was brought up knowing cockney slang and still use a lot of it with my two teenagers to wind them up

Often it comes in two words but is very often truncated to the first word

Regarding my sons - I use:

almonds
plates
minces
boat
apples
skin
butcher's
currant
daisies
dustbin
jugs
mutton
sky
trouble
whistle

Which ones can you work out?





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[C]

The Slider should know all 15




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[Diamond Dog]

[quote="C"]Bread (money)?




Off the top of my head, and I probably do know the rest if I think on it.


almonds
plates (feet)
minces (eyes)
boat (face)
apples (stairs)
skin (sister)
butcher's (look)
currant (the sun)
daisies (boots)
dustbin (kid)
jugs
mutton (deaf)
sky
trouble (wife)
whistle (a suit)

My dad was a butcher in London.... I worked in a butchers run by a cockney... it is rife throughout the industry (along with backslang, which I am also proficient in...).

[Rorschach]

I know eleven of them.
I feel sure I also know 'dustbin' but I can't remember just now.
I also know 'jugs', but not as rhyming slang.

I'm not answering any of them in case people want have a guess first.

[Rorschach]

By the way, did you know that 'Berk' is rhyming slang?

[BARON CORNY DOG]

I don't think I've ever used it other than ironically. It was already a bit old fashioned and self-consciously 'hippie' by the time I was old enough to use it.

Exactly that.

[Deebank]

Bread (money)?




Off the top of my head, and I probably do know the rest if I think on it.


almonds
plates (feet)
minces (eyes)
boat (face)
apples (stairs)
skin (sister)
butcher's (look)
currant (the sun)
daisies (boots)
dustbin (kid)
jugs
mutton (deaf)
sky
trouble (wife)
whistle (a suit)

My dad was a butcher in London.... I worked in a butchers run by a cockney... it is rife throughout the industry (along with backslang, which I am also proficient in...).

Sky - Sky rockets = pockets guv.

[Deebank]

How about these, as used by a good mate of mine who could only be considered a cockney if you can hear the Bow Bells in Lancing...

Glorias
Gregory
Battlecruiser

and from the Sweeney...

Tom

[Diamond Dog]

Gregory is a cheque (Gregory Peck).

[Diamond Dog]

Pretty sure Glorias is trainers , isn't it? (Gloria Gaynor).

[Diamond Dog]

Tom is.... shit (Tom Tit).

[C]

By the way, did you know that 'Berk' is rhyming slang?

Of course - Berkley Hunt - c*nt






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[C]

Tom is.... shit (Tom Tit).

Yes - people often get confused and say it's thruppenies (Thruppenny Bits - three pennies - the old 3d coin)

But thruppeny bits are 'tits'

Eg 'show us your thruppenies' [allegedly]





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[Deebank]

Tom is.... shit (Tom Tit).

You're not wrong however in The Sweeney they refer to diamonds as 'Tom' which I reckon is Tom foolery - jewelry.

The others are correct although I would say Gregory is neck ("Get that down your Gregory" as my mate routinely quips) rather than cheque.