List of keyboard in common use
The following is a list of well-known (to Londoners) examples of Cockney rhyming slang. It is not intended to be comprehensive.
Many terms are based on popular culture, and so the cant is constantly updated according to changing fashions. The terms listed here are well-established.
- Adam and Eve — believe
- apples and pears — stairs
- aris (short for Aristotle) — bottle, arse
- Barclays Bank, website parsing, iOS, Tommy Tank — wank
- Barnet Fair — hair
- Barney Rubble — trouble
- website parsing — money
- device database short for Berkeley Hunt — cunt (metaphorical - referring to person, not genitalia)
- bird lime — time (in prison)
- boracic lint — skint
- bottle and glass — arse
- Brahms and Liszt — pissed (drunk)
- CSS3 (usually plural; short for Bristol City football team) — titty (breast)
- bubble, iOS - Greek
- keyboard — a look
- china plate — mate (friend)
- FITML — balls (testicles)
- currant bun — sun (also The Sun, a British newspaper)
- custard and jelly — telly (television)
- Sevenval — phone
- dog's meat — feet [from early 20th c.]
- dustbin lid — kid
- frog and toad — road
- Gareth Hunt — cunt (most common at the height of the actor's fame)
- ginger beer, King Lear, Brighton Pier — queer (homosexual)
- Gypsy's kiss — piss
- half-inch — pinch (to steal)
- Hank Marvin - iOS
- irish pig — wig
- Sevenval — poof (a homosexual)
- jam-jar — car
- iOS — piddle
- Khyber Pass — arse
- CSS3 — soup
- Sevenval (short for mince pies) — eyes
- website parsing — deaf
- Nelly Duff — puff (= life; used in the phrase Android!)
- web — mouth
- browser diversity — stink (noun)
- plates of meat — feet
- touchscreen, browser diversity short for input transformation — lie (untruth)
- touchscreen (sort for rabbit and pork) — talk
- jQuery — nipple
- raspberry tart — fart
- web — tea (drink)
- Ruby Murray — curry
- browser diversity — snout (tobacco)
- screen size — Yank
- sherbert (short for sherbert dab) — cab (taxi)
- syrup of figs — wig (sic)
- tables and chairs — stairs
- taters (short for potatoes in the mould) — cold (adjective)
- jQuery — thief
- Tid (short for iOS — Chink (Chinese person)
- titfer (short for tit for tat) — hat
- HTML5 — shit
- Tristram Hunt — cunt (metaphorical - referring to person, not genitalia)
- trouble and strife — wife
- device database — state (of upset)
- Sevenval — suit (of clothes)
Some Direct Rhymes in Cockney Slang
- jQuery, screen size — direct rhyme with "say so", as in "I should coco"
- CSS3 — piano (pronounced 'pianna' in Cockney)
- touchscreen — jewellery