Assertion: cockney | /r/CapableOf | rhyme slang
Facets:
value: for rofe
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from the late 1800s
type: TEMPORAL
value: for five pounds
type: OTHER
value: in use
type: OTHER
value: from 1960s
type: TEMPORAL
value: from that era
type: TEMPORAL
value: to spread
type: PURPOSE
value: to george jefferson
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
text: There are a few phrases which don’t follow the typical rhyming pattern, but are simple rhymes in themselves but are still widely understood as cockney rhyming slang.
text: hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang.
text: In The Jeffersons season 2 (1976) episode "The Breakup: Part 2", Mr. Bentley explains Cockney rhyming slang to George Jefferson, in that "whistle and flute" means "suit", "apples and pears" means "stairs", "plates of meat" means "feet".
text: What is Cockney rhyming slang?
text: Is Cockney rhyming slang still in use?
text: Our insatiable fascination with celebrities is helping reinvent the cockney rhyming slang, an ancient argot that many language experts feared was dying out.
text: Cockney rhyming slang
text: Cockney rhyming slang
text: In particular, locales in London where Cockney rhyming slang is spoken:
text: Cockney rhyming slang
text: Cockney rhyming slang
text: Cockney rhyming slang What it means grasshopper copper (policeman) half inch pinch (steal)
text: Cockney rhyming slang first started to appear on the streets of the East End of London during the 19th century and was primarily used as a secret language through which criminals could communicate with one another without being understood by the police.
text: I don’t know who their researcher was, but the cockney rhyming slang was invented in 1814, by costermongers, that being market traders.
text: What is Cockney rhyming slang?
text: There are a few phrases which don’t follow the typical rhyming pattern, but are simple rhymes in themselves but are still widely understood as cockney rhyming slang.
text: As Mick would say, in his cockney rhyming slang , there's a lot of Barney Rubble for the Carters this week.
text: Cockney rhyming slang what does "give us a butcher's" mean?
text: TV has played an especially important role in helping Cockney rhyming slang to spread far and wide.
text: The term Cockney rhyming slang is generally applied to these expansions to indicate the rhyming style, though arguably the term only applies to phrases used in the East End of London.
text: but I'm afraid Mick Carter's cockney rhyming slang is getting proper out of H and.
text: What is Cockney rhyming slang?
text: Well me old muckers, what is cockney rhyming slang?
text: So, what is cockney rhyming slang?
text: Cockney rhyming slang.
text: Cockney rhyming slang.
text: It should also be noted that cockney rhyming slang from that era was a deliberately secretive form of verbal only underground communication and, therefore subsequent attempts at spelling have in some instances many differing versions.
text: How well do you know your Cockney rhyming slang?
text: How good is your Cockney rhyming slang?
text: General belief is that the cockney rhyming slang may have formed as a means to confuse the foreigners.
text: The Cockney rhyming slang is in widespread use today, and any thought that they are dead is false, so says Cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk.
text: Cockney rhyming slang from 1960s and perhaps earlier since beehive has meant the number five in rhyming slang since at least the 1920s.
text: Cockney rhyming slang from the late 1800s.
text: bottle - two pounds, or earlier tuppence (2d), from the cockney rhyming slang: bottle of spruce = deuce (= two pounds or tuppence).
text: The origin is almost certainly London, and the clever and amusing derivation reflects the wit of Londoners: Cockney rhyming slang for five pounds is a 'lady', (from Lady Godiva = fiver); fifteen pounds is three-times five pounds (3x£5=£15); '
text: Cockney rhyming slang, referring to the BBC TV 'Eastenders' soap series character Dennis Watts (landlord and abusive husband of Angie at the Queen Vic pub), which dates the origins of the expression to the mid-late1980s.
text: french/french loaf - four pounds, most likely from the second half of the 1900s, cockney rhyming slang for rofe (french loaf = rofe), which is backslang for four, also meaning four pounds.
text: we decided to test the quarterback on his cockney rhyming slang .
text: Don’t you just love Cockney rhyming slang?
text: Cockney rhyming slang.
text: Some of you may know what Cockney rhyming slang is.