Plum@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoRhyming slangen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down12
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minus-squareHugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 months agoQuite a few of these are still part of everyday speech in the UK. If I said something “hit me right on the loaf” everyone would know I meant my head Loaf of bread
minus-squarechumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoI’ve never heard loaf used to mean head. Grass, porkies and raspberry I’d say are the ones that have gone into common usage, to the point where I didn’t even know they were rhyming slang
minus-squareHugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI didn’t know grass was rhyming slang! What’s the connection?
minus-squarechumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoGrasshopper -> copper (police, for the Americans reading the thread) :)
Quite a few of these are still part of everyday speech in the UK. If I said something “hit me right on the loaf” everyone would know I meant my head
Loaf of bread
I’ve never heard loaf used to mean head. Grass, porkies and raspberry I’d say are the ones that have gone into common usage, to the point where I didn’t even know they were rhyming slang
I didn’t know grass was rhyming slang! What’s the connection?
Grasshopper -> copper (police, for the Americans reading the thread) :)