Printable Cockney Rhyming Slang List and Quiz.

How can you have a conversation without people knowing what you are talking about? You could communicate using sign language, or whisper, or go somewhere private.

Or you could always do what they did in the East end of London in the middle of the 19th century and create your own use of slang words so that you could talk freely in public and yet no one else would have any idea what you were talking about.

Cockney rhyming slang was born of the desire to hide your activities and intentions from bodies such as, your employers, the police and the people who may inform your employer or police what you have been getting up to or what your planning on doing in the future.

The use of cockney rhyming slang wasn't designed for every 'Tom, Dick or Harry' to use, as that would defeat it's objective, however many of it's language has seeped into common use both in the UK and some foreign destinations.

Cockney rhyming slang is a much celebrated part of British culture that people in london especially still use today.

How does cockney rhyming slang work?

I am going to take probably the most well known example of Cockney rhyming slang to demonstrate how it works in it's use of language:

If someone said to you 'get up those apples' you may well wonder what they were talking about, this statement suggests with this sentence that they would like you to 'get up those stairs'. This is because apples and pears is cockney rhyming slang for stairs.

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As you can see from this example some of the terms are only half rhymes and you drop the second word,( if the slang term contains more then one word that is).

Good luck with the quiz and I hope you find the list below it useful.

Quiz

For each question, choose the best answer. The answer key is below.

1. What does 'Adam' mean?
   • Believe
   • Conceive
   • Receive
2. What does 'Alan' mean?
   • Stickers
   • Knickers
   • Flickers
3. What does 'Almond' mean?
   • Socks
   • Locks
   • Blocks
4. What does 'Artful' mean?
   • Roger
   • Lodger
   • Forager
5. What does 'Ascot' mean?
   • Places
   • Traces
   • Braces
6. What does 'Baked' mean?
   • Seen
   • Teen
   • Queen
7. What does 'Ball' mean?
   • Walk
   • Talk
   • Stalk
8. What does 'Barnet' mean?
   • Chair
   • Pair
   • Hair
9. What does 'Boat' mean?
   • Ace
   • Case
   • Face
10. What does 'Boracic' mean?
    • Mint
    • Skint
    • Flint
11. What does 'Bread' mean?
    • Money
    • Runny
    • Sunny
12. What does 'Brown' mean?
    • Said
    • Fled
    • Dead
13. What does 'Bubble' mean?
    • Seek
    • Creek
    • Greek
14. What does 'Butchers' mean?
    • Took
    • Look
    • Crook
15. What does 'China' mean?
    • Great
    • Bait
    • Mate
16. What does 'Currant' mean?
    • Fun
    • Sun
    • Run
17. What does 'Duck' mean?
    • Jive
    • Live
    • Skive
18. What does 'Flowery' mean?
    • Tell
    • Bell
    • Cell
19. What does 'George' mean?
    • Craft
    • Draft
    • Graft
20. What does 'Jam' mean?
    • Car
    • Far
    • Bar
21. What does 'Pen' mean?
    • Shrink
    • Think
    • Stink
22. What does 'Plates' mean?
    • Meet
    • eat
    • Feet
23. What does 'Pony' mean?
    • Strap
    • Flap
    • Crap
24. What does 'Sherbet' mean?
    • Stab
    • Cab
    • Drab
25. What does 'Rosie' mean?
    • Flea
    • Tea
    • key

Answer Key

1. Believe
2. Knickers
3. Socks
4. Lodger
5. Braces
6. Queen
7. Walk
8. Hair
9. Face
10. Skint
11. Money
12. Dead
13. Greek
14. Look
15. Mate
16. Sun
17. Skive
18. Cell
19. Draft
20. Car
21. Stink
22. Feet
23. Crap
24. Cab
25. Tea

Interpreting Your Score

If you got between 0 and 7 correct answers: Oh dear, that didn't go so well did it! I think some brushing up on your cockney rhyming slang is in order.

If you got between 8 and 15 correct answers: There is considerable room for improvement but you clearly have some knowledge of cockney rhyming slang.

If you got between 16 and 20 correct answers: Good result, although you still have some way to go before your fluent.

If you got between 21 and 22 correct answers: Great result, You could definately hold your own in a conversation.

If you got between 23 and 25 correct answers: Excellent you are clearly an expert when it comes to cockney rhyming slang.

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