The Benny Hill Dictionary

A list of words and phrases with double meanings from *The Benny Hill Show.* This is still a work in process.

A

* archaic - cake in the possessive ("We can't have archaic and eat it too.") - (from "Crown Court" in Holiday)
* ascot - a little donkey's bed (from Leprechaun TV)
* asset - a little donkey (from Leprechaun TV)

B

* bacteria - rear entrance to a cafeteria (from Dr. Alfred Jardine in Big Poppa)
* baloney - where you find the hem of a nice girl's skirt (Leprechaun TV)
* boola - African for cattle feces; also a euphemism for "nonsense" (from The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard
* brothel - Chinese for brother (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)

C

* candle-stine - Scuttle-speak for "clandestine" (from Jackie Wright: Holiday)
* celery - Chinese for salary (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)

D

* diagram - Chinese for "diaphragm" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
* diaphragm - Chinese for "diagram" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
* dirty one - Chinese for "thirty-one" (The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard)

F

* flog's reggs - Chinese for frog's legs (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)
* fruit - Chinese for "flute" (The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard)
* frying - Chinese for "flying" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)

G

* gloom - a man who gets married (from Chow Mein in Down Memory Lane)

H

* harrow - "hello" in Chinese (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
* Hebrew - a male tea bag
* Henley - "Henry" in Chinese (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
* Husbands - Chinese for Osmonds (from Chow Mein in Super-Teech)

I

* innuendo - Italian suppositories (from The Hot Shoe Show)

L

* lagoon - a French idiot (from Super-Teech)

M

* mate - Irish for meat (from The South Blank Show)
* McAdam - the first Scotsman (from Super-Teech)
* "Modern Idiot" - Slang for juvenile foolishness (Spot Black and Cagney and Lacey)
* monastery - Irish for ministry (from The South Blank Show)

N

* nipples - Chinese for a group of little children ("nippers") (from Chow Mein in Down Memory Lane)

P

* pathologist - a man who can find his way through the woods (Leprechaun TV)
* pee - Irish for pay (The South Blank Show)
* pray - Chinese for play (The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard)
* pure ale - Irish for puerile (The South Blank Show)

R

* rape - Irish for fruit maturity ("rape") (The South Blank Show)
* relax - a piece of dark chocolate (from Super-Teech and Jack and Jill)
* Russian napkins - Soviets (Leprechaun TV)

S

* salary - high class wages/anemic rhubarb (Leprechaun TV)
* sara - Chinese for "sailor" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
* septics - Scuttle-speak for "skeptics" (from Fred Scuttle in Jack and Jill)
* speedometer - Irish for "spade home with her" (from The South Blank Show)
* stealing - Chinese for "steering" (The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard)

T

* tooth dirty - Chinese for "two-thirty" (The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard)
* toopee - Irish plural for pies ("two pies") (The South Blank Show)
* transvestite - Scuttle-speak for "travesty" (from Villain of the Year / The South Blank Show)

U

* unabridged - a river you have to wade across (Leprechaun TV)