Rhyming Slang

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These usages are arranged alphabetically, all instances of rhyming slang's influence on the talk of Merseysiders.  For fuller information about each usage, see the main list.  There are twenty-six files there.  Just click on to the appropriate letter.

Ali, Alley: barber

apples and pears: stairs

apple tarted: farted

bagga yeast: priest

ball and chalk

Barnet Fair: hair

blue brick (nick): jail

Boat Race: face

Bob Hope: soap

bottle: arse

bran mash: cash

brass, pallyass:  promiscuous woman

bristlers: breasts

Bristol (City): breasts

Calcutta: margarine

Coat and Vest: chest

County Kildare:  stair

Cowdenbeath: teeth

creamy whirl: girl

Dicky Dirt: shirt

dolly pegs: legs

Duke of Kent: rent

Eartha Kitt: shit

Elastic bands: hands

Everton (toffee): coffee

five-to-two: jew

Grace Kelly: television

Gregory Peck: neck

Half a Gross(dose): venereal disease

Hampstead Heath: teeth

(H)ampton Wick: prick

Hit and Miss: piss

I suppose: nose

Inch and a Half: scarf

Irish Jig: wig

jam-role,jam: parole

Jimmy Riddle: piddle

Joe Baksi: taxi

Joe Palookad:  snookered

Lauder (H)arry: order

Loaf of Bread: head

loop de loop: soup

Mae Wests: breasts

Manchester Cities: breasts

Mince Pie, mincer: tie

Mince Pies :eyes

Mint Rocks: socks

mountains of morn: pawnshop

Mutt n' Jeff: deaf

Nanny Goat: boat

Nat King (Cole): the Dole

Niagara Falls: testicles

North and South: mouth

Orchestra Stalls: testicles

Oxford Scholar: dollar

Paddy Kelly: belly

Pat 'n Mick: sick

pegs: legs

Pen n' inks: stinks

pig's belly: television

Plates of Meat, Plawts: feet

Plymouth Sound: a Pound

pony and trap: crap

Pony and Float: boat

porky pies: lies

Rabbit (and pork): talk

Rocky Raccoon: the moon

seven: heaven

Sharp and Blunt: vagina

sign of the cross: the boss

snake's hiss: piss

soap wrapper: scrapper

Tate `n' Lyle: smile

tea-leaf: thief

Toffee Rex: pants

Toffees: pants

tom foolery, tom: jewelry

Turtle Doves:  gloves

Vanity Fair: hair

Vera Lynn: chin