Appendix talk:Cockney rhyming slang

cockney rhyming slang
O One rhyme not shown is "Darby Kelly" = belly. [email address removed]

Direct rhymes
Cockney Rhyming Slang (CRS) is, by definition, indirect. That is, the target word is replaced by a short phrase containing two significant words, one of which (usually the second) rhymes with the target. If the phrase is abbreviated, it is the rhyming word that is dropped.

Some example in the list were direct rhymes:
 * coco, cocoa — direct rhyme with "say so", as in "I should coco"
 * joanna — piano (rhymes in Cockney!)
 * tomfoolery — jewellery

While these form part of the Cockney dialect, they do not conform to the commonly recognised definition of CRS. I have therefore separated them form the principal list, and accorded them a subsection of their own. --King Hildebrand 10:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Jewellery is just called tom: - especially in the criminal underworld. SemperBlotto (talk) 18:34, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup
I don't know why these entries don't link to the definitions involved, that is wig instead of wig or wig. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:33, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Daisies
One piece I’ve not seen here is ‘daisy roots’ as term for boots: it's used so in the closing theme of the 1960s version of [|The Italian Job], for example.

Is it possible to dig up a reference and include it … ?

Cuddy2977 (talk) 13:37, 13 November 2014 (UTC)