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.
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.
- What does 'Adam' mean?
- Believe
- Conceive
- Receive
- What does 'Alan' mean?
- Stickers
- Knickers
- Flickers
- What does 'Almond' mean?
- Socks
- Locks
- Blocks
- What does 'Artful' mean?
- Roger
- Lodger
- Forager
- What does 'Ascot' mean?
- Places
- Traces
- Braces
- What does 'Baked' mean?
- Seen
- Teen
- Queen
- What does 'Ball' mean?
- Walk
- Talk
- Stalk
- What does 'Barnet' mean?
- Chair
- Pair
- Hair
- What does 'Boat' mean?
- Ace
- Case
- Face
- What does 'Boracic' mean?
- Mint
- Skint
- Flint
- What does 'Bread' mean?
- Money
- Runny
- Sunny
- What does 'Brown' mean?
- Said
- Fled
- Dead
- What does 'Bubble' mean?
- Seek
- Creek
- Greek
- What does 'Butchers' mean?
- Took
- Look
- Crook
- What does 'China' mean?
- Great
- Bait
- Mate
- What does 'Currant' mean?
- Fun
- Sun
- Run
- What does 'Duck' mean?
- Jive
- Live
- Skive
- What does 'Flowery' mean?
- Tell
- Bell
- Cell
- What does 'George' mean?
- Craft
- Draft
- Graft
- What does 'Jam' mean?
- Car
- Far
- Bar
- What does 'Pen' mean?
- Shrink
- Think
- Stink
- What does 'Plates' mean?
- Meet
- eat
- Feet
- What does 'Pony' mean?
- Strap
- Flap
- Crap
- What does 'Sherbet' mean?
- Stab
- Cab
- Drab
- What does 'Rosie' mean?
- Flea
- Tea
- key
Answer Key
- Believe
- Knickers
- Socks
- Lodger
- Braces
- Queen
- Walk
- Hair
- Face
- Skint
- Money
- Dead
- Greek
- Look
- Mate
- Sun
- Skive
- Cell
- Draft
- Car
- Stink
- Feet
- Crap
- Cab
- 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.
List of words and threre cockney rhyming slang.
Word | Cockney rhyming slang |
---|---|
Suit | Whistle and Flute |
Gin | Vera Lynn |
Wife | Trouble and strife |
Window | Tommy Trinder |
Jewellery | Tom-foolery |
Sick | Tom and Dick |
Alone | Todd Sloane |
Hat | Titfer/Tit for Tat |
Theif | Tea Leaf |
Wig | Syrup and Figs |
Flying Squad | Sweeny Todd |
Sky Rocket | |
Sister | Skin and Blister |
Snout | Salmon and Trout |
Curry | Ruby Murrey |
Pub | Rub-a-Dub |
Trousers | Round the Houses |
Turd | Richard the 3rd |
Lies | Porky Pies |
Tie | Peckham Rye |
Fag | Oily Rag |
Mouth | North and South |
Deaf | Mutt and Jeff |
Windy | Mork and Mindy |
Eyes | Mince Pies |
Head | Loaf of Bread |
Flares | Lionel Blairs/Tony Blairs |
Five Pounds/Fiver | Lady Godiva |
Dance | Kick and Prance |
Arse | Khyber Pass |
Piano | Aunt Joanna |
Piddle | Jimmy Riddle |
Starving | Hank Marvin |
Cheque | Gregory Peck |
Road | Frog and Toad |
Kid | Dustbin lid |
Rent | Duke of Kent |
Shoes | Dinky Doos |
Shirt | Dicky Dirt |
Word | Dicky Bird |
Moan | Darby and Joan |
Boots | Daisy Roots |
Ten | Cock and Hen |
Arm | Chalk Farm |
Daughter | Bricks and Mortar |
Facts | Brass Tacks |
Soap | Bob Hope |
Boozer | Battlecruiser |
Cousin | Bakers Dozen |