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Definition of rhyming slang in English: rhyming slangnoun mass nounA type of slang that replaces words with rhyming words or phrases, typically with the rhyming element omitted. For example butcher's, short for butcher's hook, means ‘look’ in Cockney rhyming slang. Example sentencesExamples - Words from Romany (originally an Indian dialect), Shelta (the cant of the Irish tinkers), Yiddish, back slang, rhyming slang and other non-standard English are interspersed with words of Italian origin.
- Swayze, it turns out, is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘crazy’.
- Trouble & Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife.
- He went round the office saying, ‘What is that cockney rhyming slang for?’
- For our American readers, ‘barnet’ is Cockney rhyming slang for hair (as in Barnet Fair).
- He would use rhyming slang for words that were slang already.
- There are some interesting Australian examples of this truncated rhyming slang.
- For those readers not familiar with 1970s UK police series, or Cockney rhyming slang, ‘tea leaf’ = thief.
- Of all types of slang, perhaps the best known is Cockney rhyming slang.
- Named after the Londoners who invented it, Cockney rhyming slang uses a group of words, the last of which rhymes with whatever's being referred to.
- ‘The custard’, incidentally, is supposedly cockney rhyming slang for telly: custard and jelly.
- Now that it's become part of mainstream culture, Cockney rhyming slang is being used in an ingenious way to promote an institution on the wane in Britain - the church.
- Her name is Cockney rhyming slang for rain of course.
- In the backstreets of London, his unofficial languages included rhyming slang, back slang, and a variant of London back slang known as ‘aiga’.
- Cockney rhyming slang is enjoying a renaissance, so you may hear a series of very strange sounding phrases whose meaning is fairly obscure.
- Related to reduplicates is Cockney rhyming slang, one of my favorite ‘features’ of the English language.
- It tends to be very colourful in its metaphors, and use of such devices as rhyming slang is quite common.
- He is a refreshing change from the spate of cockney rhyming slang characters and bumbling ex-footballer hardmen that riddled previous gangster films.
- I taught him Cockney rhyming slang, like ‘apples and pears, dog and bone, whistle and flute’.
- Perhaps she was trying to distance herself from the Chloe image, but the outfits, which included T-shirts with cockney rhyming slang, went down like a lead balloon.
Definition of rhyming slang in US English: rhyming slangnounˈraɪmɪŋ ˌslæŋˈrīmiNG ˌslaNG A type of slang that replaces words with rhyming words or phrases, typically with the rhyming element omitted. For example butcher's, short for butcher's hook, means “look” in Cockney rhyming slang. Example sentencesExamples - There are some interesting Australian examples of this truncated rhyming slang.
- Trouble & Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife.
- Swayze, it turns out, is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘crazy’.
- Words from Romany (originally an Indian dialect), Shelta (the cant of the Irish tinkers), Yiddish, back slang, rhyming slang and other non-standard English are interspersed with words of Italian origin.
- Of all types of slang, perhaps the best known is Cockney rhyming slang.
- Named after the Londoners who invented it, Cockney rhyming slang uses a group of words, the last of which rhymes with whatever's being referred to.
- Related to reduplicates is Cockney rhyming slang, one of my favorite ‘features’ of the English language.
- Perhaps she was trying to distance herself from the Chloe image, but the outfits, which included T-shirts with cockney rhyming slang, went down like a lead balloon.
- He went round the office saying, ‘What is that cockney rhyming slang for?’
- He would use rhyming slang for words that were slang already.
- Now that it's become part of mainstream culture, Cockney rhyming slang is being used in an ingenious way to promote an institution on the wane in Britain - the church.
- For our American readers, ‘barnet’ is Cockney rhyming slang for hair (as in Barnet Fair).
- He is a refreshing change from the spate of cockney rhyming slang characters and bumbling ex-footballer hardmen that riddled previous gangster films.
- It tends to be very colourful in its metaphors, and use of such devices as rhyming slang is quite common.
- I taught him Cockney rhyming slang, like ‘apples and pears, dog and bone, whistle and flute’.
- In the backstreets of London, his unofficial languages included rhyming slang, back slang, and a variant of London back slang known as ‘aiga’.
- ‘The custard’, incidentally, is supposedly cockney rhyming slang for telly: custard and jelly.
- Cockney rhyming slang is enjoying a renaissance, so you may hear a series of very strange sounding phrases whose meaning is fairly obscure.
- Her name is Cockney rhyming slang for rain of course.
- For those readers not familiar with 1970s UK police series, or Cockney rhyming slang, ‘tea leaf’ = thief.
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