Mitts. – a mitten is a kind of glove. But Brits have shortened the word and made it slang for hands. For example: “I'd love to get my mitts on a new camera!”
For instance, "face" would be replaced by "boat," because face rhymes with "boat race." Similarly "feet" becomes "plates" ("plates of meat"), and "money" is "bread" (a very common usage, from "bread and honey").
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What is cockney slang for fart?
In most anglophone countries, it is known as a raspberry, which is attested from at least 1890, and which in the United States had been shortened to razz by 1919. The term originates in rhyming slang, where "raspberry tart" means "fart".
The word eyes using cockney rhyming slang is mince pies, but if you want to shorten this then it becomes mincers. Example: “Look me in the mincers (eyes) and tell me the truth!”
Similarly, "Nice" is replаced by "Cuppa" (“Cup of tea, sausage and a slice”); "Hot" by "Peasy" (“Peas in the Pot”); "Eyes" by "Mincers" (“Mince pies”) and "Feet" by "Plates" (“Plates of meat”).
A single banana is called a finger. A grouping of attached "fingers" make up a "hand" of bananas. Multiple hands that grow in a cluster are called a bunch or stalk—a bunch of bananas may contain 3 to 20 hands!
Another slightly dated alternative word to the toilet, 'khazi' (also spelt karzy, kharsie or carzey) is derived from the low Cockney word 'carsey', meaning a privy. It has its roots in the nineteenth century, but gained popular usage during the twentieth century.
Other indications of the fact these words originated here are words coming from cockney rhyming slang like 'Peter' for a safe or prison cell, a peter-man is a safecracker.
When ordering half a pint of beer, you can use the phrase “cow's half” and, once it gets you pissed, aka drunk, you can refer to the state you're in as “Brahms and Liszt” or “elephant's trunk”. There are multiple slang phrases for the pub, but some of the most popular ones are “rub-a-dub” and “nuclear sub”.
Trouble and Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife. We chose this name because it acknowledges the reality of conflict in relations between women and men. As radical feminists, our politics come directly from this tension between men's power and women's resistance.
Hampstead Heath. Heath rhymes with teeth. Drop the word that rhymes – I mean, this is London, after all, it's important that it be a bit subtle, a bit opaque – drop the word Heath – which rhymes with teeth – and that leaves Hampsteads – plural – as your cockney rhyming slang word for teeth.
On the subject of 'bins' this expression is the cockney rhyming slang for glasses, as in reading glasses, so if someone is having trouble looking up a number in a telephone book you might say put on your 'bins'.
