The Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary by Geoff Tibballs

Author:Geoff Tibballs [Tibballs, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473566873
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

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Obi-Wan Kenobi mobi (mobile phone)

(After the Jedi Master from Star Wars.)

Ocean liner shiner (black eye)

Ocean wave shave

Oi Jimmy Knacker tobacco

(Oi Jimmy Knacker was a children’s street game similar to leapfrog that was popular in London in the 1920s. The rhyme works because of the Cockney pronunciation ‘tabakker’.)

Old fogey bogey (snot)

Old iron and brass grass

(From the rag and bone man’s collection call of ‘any old iron’, popularised by the 1911 music-hall song of that title performed by Harry Champion.)

Old King Cole the dole

Old oak the Smoke (London)

(‘The Smoke’ has been London’s nickname from the nineteenth century on account of its polluted atmosphere from homes and factories.)

Omar Sharif grief

(After the smooth Egyptian actor, as in, ‘Will you stop giving me so much Omar!’)

On and off cough

On the floor poor

(A rhyme reflecting where you might end up sleeping if you’ve got no money.)

Ones and twos shoes

Ooh la la bra

Orange peel feel

Overcoat maker undertaker

(A ‘wooden overcoat’ is a slang term for ‘coffin’.)

Oxford scholar collar, dollar

(In the mid-nineteenth century there were about four US dollars to the pound and so five shillings became known as a ‘dollar’, which was converted to an ‘Oxford scholar’.)

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