C(l)ockweights: testicles
Source: LS3

Cabbage Hall Yank: a youth who tries to behave like, or pretends to be an American. Also called a Wells Fartole type. Cf. "Cunard Yanks" on this list.
Source: LS2

cabbaged: confused, contradictory
Source: LS4

Cabbaging: pilfering
Source: LS4

cack: excrement.  Cf. "cack-handed."
Source: SL, OED

Cack-anded. A left-handed person.
Source: LS1

cack-handed camel: a person who is helplessly inept at something, for instance operating a personal computer
Source: SL

cadger: panhandler
Source: SL

Caidy or straw caidy: a straw boater hat. Also called a cheese-cutter.
Source: LS2

Cakehole: the mouth
Source: LS3

calcio: Italian for football
Source: GTH

Calcutta (rhyming): margarine
The rhyming component is butter
Source: LS3

calender: ironing machine in the public wash houses
Source: TWH

call-on point (now obsolete); meant the same as a "stand" where casual dock laborers would wait to be selected.
Source: LCS

Camp: gay or homosexual. A common constituent parsing of  gay is "good as you."
Source: ANS, Moloney

Can-lad: a boy who makes tea for workers; it refers to any lowly, ill-paid job. Shaw says that can-lads were apprentice engineers who used to wear a peaked cap, which they dipped in oil on the first day they acquired them.  Cf. "carry the can" on this list, in the sense of to take responsibility or to accept blame..
Sources: LS2, ML

Canary cake: plain, saffron-colored slab-cake.
Source: LS2

candyfloss: cotton candy
Source: SL

cannie houses (obsolete): name for local canteens
Source: GU

Caper: conduct, proper procedure  Synonyms: lark, jape.
Source: Shaw GS, Moloney

Car (or Cor) Blimey: God bless me! It originally meant "blind me."
Source: DVSL, Moloney

card school: an illegal cardgame, usually one going on in a police-free area.
Source: LWAT

carkey: as in "a carkey audience": a dead audience, or one entirely too well behaved. Cark means death, or to die.
Source: ODS, Sir Paul McCartney

Carnival ribbons: toilet rolls.  The original RAF slang for it was bumf, for "bumfodder."
Source: LS2, Moloney

Carpet, a : a three month prison sentence. To be "carpetted" means to be brought to book.
Source: LS3, Moloney

Carryin  on, a: a romantic affair. But any event may be referred to as a "carry on."
Source: SL, Moloney

carry the can, to: to take responsibility for something.
Source: L8

Carryin. I'm carryin: I am fairly affluent at present. It can also mean pregnant.
Source: LS1

Carryin-out: packed lunch.  It's fer my feller's carryin-out: It is for my husband's packed lunch, or snap.
Source: LS1

Carzy: toilet, privy
Source: LS3, SL

cascara: extract of  the bark of a California buckthorn, used as a laxative (and a very effective one).
Source: SL, OED

Casey: full-sized football. Shaw says the name comes from the case around the bladder
Sources: SHAW III, LS1

Cassoona: a mythical individual alleged to have teeth in his backside and blamed for biting buttons off railray carriage seats.
Source: LS2

casuals: a type of gang who wore expensive clothes, disdained football matches, and created disturbances and fights with other groups of casuals.
Source: GTH

catenaccio: defensive play in football
Source: GTH

caught short, to be: to have no bathroom in which to relieve oneself (e.g., at a football game).
Source: DBAPOI

cavendish(obsolete): tobacco pressed and formed into rectangular shapes
Source: LLMI

Cazzy. De Cazzy: the "Cast Iron Shore," Dingle. Spiegl notes that the famous iron foundry stood at the Dingle, on the north bank of the River Mersey, in the nineteenth century. St. Michael's Church, which has stood nearby since 1814, contains much prefabricated cast iron.
Source: LS1

Cead Mile Failte(Irish): a hundred thousand welcomes
Source: SL

Cert: a woman who never says no to a sexual advance; a sure thing. It can also refer to a certainty in racing.  A "dead cert" is a sure thing.
Source: LS3, Moloney

chaff, to(obsolete): to talk, to rail
Source: LLMI

chalking out: children's game
Source: DBAPOI

Chamber music: lavatory noises. Also called Handel's water music, and a "closet chorus."
Source: LS2

Champers: champagne
Source: ANS and SL

Champion or proper champion: excellent. Spiegl notes that this is out of Lancashire and less used than "ther gear."
Source: LS2

Char: tea
Source: LS2

charabanc do, a: a large party, sometimes just family, which used to involve a great number of carriages
Source: MLS

charge, to be on a: this is a police term to describe an officer who is on report for some supposed infraction.
Source: SI

Charlie's footrot. I got Charlie's footrot. I have athlete's foot. Spiegl thinks the term comes in part from the Christian name of a once well-known Liverpool athlete.
Source: LS1

charraband: horseless carriage
Source: SL

Charva: a promiscuous woman
Source: LS3

Chasin' the dragon: sniffing heroine or cocaine
Source: LS4

Chavering: to be on the prowl sexually; to be poaching someone else's woman
Source: ANS

Chavvy: baby
Source: LS3

Cheat preacher: someone who is involved in religion solely for financial gain; this is a frequent charge against media evangelists
Source: Shaw GS

cheese cutter: a straw boater hat, or caidy
Source: LS2

Chemicked: inebriated
Source: LS3

Cherry-bobs or cherry-wobs: children's game in which cherry pits(or cherry stones) are flipped at a rainwater-spout or substituted for marbles.
Source:LS1, LS2, MLS

Chester cakes: a pastry about an inch and a half thick with thin pastry bottom and top.  The top was iced, and the filling was usually currants or sultanas.   They were baked as a slab, then cut into three inch squares.  They were often found in the window of cafes in the dock road area and came to be known by some as "dockers wedding cakes."  But also see "dockers wedding cakes" on this list.  Some informants remember Cheshire or Chester Plonk as the name for Nelson cakes, or wet nellies, in other parts of Britain.
Source: SL

Chesty, to be: to have chest congestion, etc.
Source:ALS

Chin someone, to: to hit someone on the chin
Source: LS3

Chin wag: extended conversation
Source: Shaw ST

Chin: Give yer chin a rest, or please be silent.
Source: LS1

Chinee: a Chinaman( a back-formation based on the assumption that Chinese must be plural)
Source: LS2

ching, a: five pounds
Source: LS3, LS1

Chinky-chuck: Chinese food
Source: LS2

chip, a: a shilling
Source: LS1, LS3

Chip butty: french fries on a piece of buttered bread
Source: SL, LS2

Chippy. De chippy. The fish and chip shop.
Source: LS1

Choc-a-block: chock full.  Chock a block is an old Lancashire usage meaning full
Source:ML

Chocka: fed up
Source: LS4

chocker, a: a brick.  The words "half chocker" would refer to half a brick.
Source: SL

chocolate port: a port run-down, wide open, and cheap.  Liverpool was known to many sailors as a chocolate port.
Source: L8

choked, to be: to be very thirsty, in need of a drink
Source: SI

chokey: jail, lockup
Source: DS

Chook: chicken, or an elderly woman
Source: SL  Also see "chuck" on this list.

Chooks: term of affection applied ironically to any member of the opposite sex. Spiegl says this term is less used than "luv" but more often than "ducks."
Source: LS2

Chopper: penis
Source: LS3

Choppy Sue: chop suey
Source: Shaw ML

Choss: complete disorder, a mispronunciation of chaos
Source: LS2

Chrimmy: Christmas
Source: SL

chronic state: disastrous condition, total demise
Source: SL

Chrysanthemum blooms: shavings from wood carvings which Romany gypsies shaped into wooden flowers and then put in the window of households as a sign that gypsies were well treated there.
Source: SL

Chuck: to give or pass something to someone
Source: LS2

Chuck: food in general, or bread
Source: Shaw
chuck(Lancashire): a hen
Source: GLD

chucker out, the: the bouncer in a movie
Source: LWAT

chucky egg: soft-boiled egg mashed up with butter(or some facsimile of it) in a cup
Source: SL

Chuffed: pleased. Dead chuffed is extremely pleased. to be chuffed to ballocks is to be obscenely delighted.
Sources: SL, Moloney

Civvy Street: civilian life; the condition and status of a civilian
Source: DS

clacker: piecrust
Source: DS

Claptrap: vagina
Source: LS3

Clarence Mbongo: applied to a person of color, especially if young and dressy.
Source: LS2

Clat tale tit: you are an informer. Clat, to: to inform on someone
Sources: LS1,SL

clean sheets, to keep: said of a goalie who does not allow any scores by the other side
Source: GTH

clean sheet, to have a: to go scoreless as a team
Source: GTH

Clean mennal: dotty; decidedly mad
Source: LS2

clean-ther-pan: a male pastime, in which the stream of urine is used to remove traces of previous use from a commode
Source: LS2

clergy, the: sarcastic term to describe the vagabonds, thieves, rogues, burglars and personal acquaintances present, usually in one's home, once the pubs have closed.
Source: LS3

Clever clogs: a know it all
Source: DS

Clever: well; in good health
Source: LS2

Clew on the ear-ole, clue on the lug : chastising blow to a troublesome child
Source: SHAW II

click up with, to:  to form an impromptu but intimate association with another person.
Source: SL

climp: excellent, superb. Now obsolete, replaced by "de gear."
Source: LC

Clippies: bus conductors, who clipped passengers's tickets
Source: SL

clit-clat(Lancashire): noise made by a talkative person
Source: GLD

Clobber: clothing
Source: Shaw ML, SL

Clock a cop, to: to steal something
Source: Shaw ML

Clock, to: to hit someone
Source: Shaw GS

clock, de: The face.
Source:LS1

Clocking: staring in an intimidating manner, for instance at a jury member
Clocking can also refer to turning back the mileage on second-hand cars
Source: LS4

clockwork orange: male homosexual
Source: Partridge, LS1

clod, a: one pence
Source: LS1, LS3

clogger: in football, a very physical player, one given to committing vicious fouls
Source: GTH

Cloggie(obsolete): a person who wears wooden clogs.
Source: LS2

Clonkers: wooden clogs or heavy hobnailed boots. Clonkers is also a contest in which opponents grip hands and kick each other with clogs until one admits defeat.
Source: LS2

clothes pegs:  clothes pins, in the past often carved and sold by gypsies
Source: SL

Club money. I've not had de club money yet. It usually refers to a savings group, such as a Christmas Club or a Tontine, but it can also mean " I have not received the National Health benefit yet."
Source: LS1, Moloney

Clubman. De Clubman. The insurance (or other) collector. It can refer to the rent-man or the "telly-man," the latter out of Irish Tally-man.
Source: LS1

Cluey(Australian): well informed, alert, as in "clued up". An Australian usage.
Source: DS

Coal-trimmer: person who feeds coal to a ship's furnace
Source: ALS

Coat and vest(rhyming): the chest
Source: LS3

Coat-pullers: favorites of the boss on the job.  Cf. "coat-tail tuggers."
Source: ST

cob(Lancashire): to catch, take hold of. Cob also can refer to something round, as in a cob of coal or a cob of chuck(bread). Cobs can refer to large lumps. Used by itself, cob can mean a roll or a piece of meat
Sources: SHAW I, LS1, GLD, LS2

Cob. Yer gorra cob on. Your are in a bad mood.
Sources: LS1, DS

Cobber: a clever, enterprising person, an operator
Source: SL

Cobblers(as in "what a load of cobblers!): nonsense
The source is rhyming slang, where "cobblers' awls" referred to balls.
Sources: SCHUR, SL, OED

cobbles: cobblestones
Source: LS2

Cobby sod: a merry or high-spirited bastard. "Sod" originally meant sodomite. Cobby can also mean irritated, balky.
Sources: SL, OED, SCHUR

cock a snook, to: to reject with contempt
Source: SL

Cockholder: vagina. Minard points out that this word can also refer to penis, perhaps because it is a corrupt form of "cuckolder."
Source: LS3

Cockloft: attic
Source: SL

cocky watch: this was one of the titles given to the person keeping watch for the police as a pitch and toss game was going on.
Source: SL

Cockwood: waste wood.
Source: LS1

Coconut: term of abuse between Afro-Caribbeans, the equivalent of oreo in America, because of the suggestion that the person called this is dark on the outside but white on the inside, and therefore not, as they say in America, "chocolate to the bone."
Source: LS4

Coconut shy: a place where balls are thrown at coconuts, on midways or at carnivals
Source: DS

Cod boss: minor boss, straw boss, foreman
Source: ST, LC

cod mouth: usually a parental rebuke to a child
Source: SL

cod on, to: to pretend
Source: LS1

Cod: a pretender
In Irish, cod means an empty husk
Source: SHAW II

Coddy's Show: the Punch and Judy show run by the Codman family, in particular "Professor" Codman, in Liverpool.
Source: LS2

cod's head: a routine address to a friend
Source: LS3

coffin dodger: term for an old person
Source: SL

cogger, a: this can refer to a Catholic, but also to a footballer whose best foot is his left.
Source: PL

Coggy watchman, sometimes called a cokky watchman: a night watchman; cogy originally referred to the night watchman on a training ship.
Source: DS

Cokes. De cokes. The restaurant; the eating place. Spiegl says that this is ultimately from the Cocoa Rooms, which were teetotal establishments endowed by nineteenth century philanthropist reformers.
Source: LS1

Colcanon(Irish): mashed potatoes and mashed turnips; in Ireland it is frequently mashed potatoes, butter, and onion.
Source: SL

Cold. It's cold enough fer two pur a bootlaces. The weather is very cold.
Source: LS1

collar felt, to have one's : to be charged with committing a felony
Source: LS3, SL

come off crabs, to(obsolete): to be unfortunate
Source: LLMI

Come-overs: the Isle of Mann term for visitors, many of whom are from Merseyside. Spiegl notes that the "come-overs" retaliate by calling themselves the "go-backers."
Source: LS2

Comic singer's lip, a: a "fat lip," gotten from some brawl
Source: Y

Compost-flake: herbal tobacco
Source: LS2

Confessional: vagina
Source: LS3

Conkers: a game played by two opponents, each with horse chestnuts attached to a cord. The object is to swing one's "conker" or chestnut against the opponent's and break it. The earlier name for this game was "Conquerors."
Source: MOORE

connie, a: a political conservative
Source: SL

Conny-onny: condensed milk
Source: LS2

contract: a season ticket for transportation
Source: LS1, Shaw ML

cooee, up the, to be: to be in a difficult or embarrassing position
Source: LS2

Cooey: back alley, passageway
Source: LS1

Coolie: a common fellow of the lowest class, ultimately from the Tamil word for day-laborer.
Source: DS

Cop on, to: to understand, to emphathize. cop off is to socialize, with the intention of picking someone up
Source: SL

cop off: to manage a successful "pick up" at a gathering or at a pub
Source: SL

Cop shop: police station
Source: LS1

Cop it sweet: to endure, to deal with something
Source: SL

Cop off brigade: singles (or hookers) looking for a pick-up
Source: SL

Coppers. I got de coppers. I have money. Wher wuz yer when I ad der coppers? It is a pity we did not meet when I was in a position to buy you a drink.
Source: LS1

Corksucker. An American. Spiegl at first thought this might be derived from the cork-tipped cigarette, first smoked by Americans, but he later saw that obscene raillery is the more direct explanation here.
Source: LS1

Corky. Wid de corky. With a real cricket ball, ie., a hard one.
Source: LS1

Corned dog. Corned-beef.
Source: LS1

Corned beef legs: mottled legs. Opinion was that the discoloration came from being lazy, i.e., sitting too long and too close to the fire.
Source: SL

Corned Jock: corned beef
Source: Shaw

Corny dips: Cornwallis Street Public Baths
Source: LS2

coronary trombonist, a: Liverpudlianism for a coronary thrombosis
Source: BLH

Corpy: a corporation house(Council House), for public housing.
Source: LS2, SL

corpy hair oil: tap water
Source: SL

Corpy Yard: play area in a public housing(i.e., Corporation or City Council) site
Source: SL, Moloney

Cosh: blackjack
Source: ST

Cost millyins. Fairly expensive. Spiegl sees this as typical Liverpool-Irish hyperbole and offers the example "..a big feller comes up--about ten foot igh he wuz; an effin-great rat run out- -big as an effin donkey; dur wuz millyins uv dem at der match--you cudda walked on dere eds."
Source: LS1

Costy: dressed up. See also custy, meaning beautiful
Source: LTB

cottage pie: a dish of minced beef baked under mashed potatoes. This is approximately what is called shepherd's pie elsewhere.
Source: SL, OED

Cotton on, to : to understand
Source: Shaw GS

cotton skin: cargo sampler on the docks.  Cf. "fruit skin."
Source: BLH

Cough: to confess, to "sing," in underworld parlance.A Cough,  in police terms, is a confession
Sources: SI, LS4

Count of Monte Cristo: a dressy man; a show-off. The first word is often obscenely mispronounced
Source: LS2

County Kildaire, Barnet Fair, Vanity Fair(rhyming): the hair
Source: LS3

cove, a: a suspicious character
Source: SI

Cow's Calf: Ten shillings
Also called Half a Quid, Half a Bar
Source: LS3

cow bag:  contemptuous reference to a woman
Source: SL

Cow-'ead: a simpleton, a yokel
Source: LS2

Cow-juice. Fresh milk.
Source: LS1

Cowboy: a rank outsider. Shaw thinks that this comes from the saying, " If yew can't fight, wur a big 'at."  Cowboys is also a name given to a ship's crew.
Cowboys also refers to fly-by-night tradesmen who do shoddy work, take the money and disappear.
Sources: LS1, LS4, SHAW II

Cows: what prostitutes are called by their clients. A common woman might be called a "silly moo."  Cf. "herdsmen" on this list.
Source: LS4

cow's calf: ten shillings
Source: LS1

Cozzie(sometimes spelled cossie, from costume): I got no bayden cozzie. I have no swim suit.
Source: LS1

CPL: common prostitute loitering, a police term
Source: LS4

CPS: common prostitute soliciting, a police term
Source: LS4

crabshells(obsolete): shoes
Source: LLMI

crack: plan or plot. Of course the term has come to refer mainly to the affordable and dangerous drug of that name.
Source: SL

crash: a billiards game
Source: SI

Crack on, to: to take notice. E won't crack on: he is ignoring us.
Sources: LS1, GS

cracked mare, a: a stupid woman; this is usually said in teasing
Source: SL

Cracker, a: beautiful woman
Source: LS3

cracking: excellent, superb
Source: GTH

Crackling: roast pork
Source: DS

cranking up: injecting or shooting drugs with a gun, or hyperdermic syringe.
Source: LS4

Crater face: a person suffering from acne
Source: LS3

crates: immigrants, in the past mainly Irish immigrants
Source: GYW

crawlin' in ther spew: too drunk to stand
Source: LS2

cream and crackered(rhyming slang): bushed, totally fatigued.  The excluded rhyming item is "knackered."
Source: SL

Creamy Whirl(rhyming): woman , girl
Source: LS3

Creased(dockers): I'm dead creased. I am very tired(dockers)
Source: LS1

Creepin' Jesus: someone in perpetual bad health or some other misfortune; someone who solicits sympathy by wearing an air of patient martyrdom. The inevitable conclusion is that this is a sly person, a holy creep.
Source: LS2, Moloney

cribbing: complaining
Source: SI

crikey!: exclamation, which is a variation on Christ
Source: SL, ODS

crimp(from crimp meat): cooked meat, as would be put in a pasty. Another meaning for crimp was the hoodlum hired  in the mid 1850's by hotels and rooming houses to approach the newly arrived immigrants, most of them famine Irish and bully or lure them to particular lodgings.
Source: OED, EHI, GTA, LMC

Crinkum-Crankum: vagina
Source: LS3

crispy bits: fragments left over at the end of the day in a fish and chip house, and which might be given free to those who asked for them
Source: SL

crocodile(rhyming): file, long line
Source: TMD

Crook, to be: to be ill
Source: SL

Crook(adj.): broken
Source: SL

Crop: haircut
Source: SHAW II

Crosscut: A Chinese Woman
Spiegl says that Jewish women are also occasionally referred to as crosscuts, the allusion being to obscene folklore about them having a horizontal vagina.
Source: LS1

Crown and Anchor(obsolete): a gambling game played with three dice, each having faces bearing a drown, and anchor, and the four card suits.  The players place their bets on a board or cloth bearing similar figures.
Source: OED

Crown jewels: injuries to the head
Source: LS2

Crubeen: pig's foot
Source: Shaw I

Crust: a living, a salary, as in to do something for a crust
Source: SL

Crutch: woman's crotch
Source: ANS

Cud wind der Liver clock: A tall man, one standing high enough to reach the clock on the Liver Building.
Source: LS1

cum ther rubber duck, to: to be silly or childish
Source: LS2

Cunard feet: big splay feet
Source: LS2

Cunard Yanks: sailors and others (in the forties and fifties, it was frequently used to refer to musicians) who adopted American dress, ways, and preferences
Source: LCS

Curd: lemon cheese
Source: LS2

Currant Bun(rhyming): the sun
Source: SL

Curry muncher(Australian): insulting reference to a sub-continent Indian or a Pakastani or a wider range of far-Easterners and Asiatics generally (Australian)
Source: SL

Custy: beautiful
Source: LS3

Cut: a canal
Source: LS2

Cut and thrust: term to describe a dog eat dog atmosphere
Source: SL

Cutty shark: A small fish; a tiddler or stickleback caught in a canal. The pun is on cutty sark, the famous sailing ship.
Source: LS2

Cutty: barge operator; it can also mean a stubby type of clay pipe.
Source: LS2

Cuzzies: the customs officers
Source: LS1

Cuzzy shed: dock shed where Customs may search crews for contraband, stolen goods, etc.
Source: GS