Hank's Australian rhyming slang
australian rhyming slang
Some of these Australian rhyming slang expressions have origins in England. Most have Australian origins. If you know other Australian rhyming slang expressions please send them.
Adrians (Adrian Quist) = pissed (drunk) (Adrian Quist 1913-91, Australian tennis champion of 1936, 1940 and 1948, and prolific doubles winner - including ten consecutive Australian championships with partners Jack Crawford and Don Turnbull, 1936-40 and 1946-50, either side of the 2nd World War. In all Quist won 17 majors including doubles at Wimbledon, US, French and Australian.)
After darks = sharks
Al Capone = phone
Almond rocks = socks
Annalise (Annalise Braakensiek, Australian glamour model, pronounced Brak-en-sak) = 'crack, back and sac' (hair removal from intimate male body parts by waxing)
Asteroids = haemorroids (piles)
Babbler (babbling brook) = cook
Bat and ball = stall (a car)
Bag of fruit = suit
Barney (Barney Rubble, the Flintstones character) = trouble
Bib 'n' bub = pub
Billy lids = kids
Billygoat = tote
Blood and blister = sister
Blundstone (Blundstone Boot is a workman's boot) = ute (Australian and NZ abbreviation of a workman's 'ultility vehicle' - either a sedan/saloon car comprising cab and flat-bed or tray back, or a more rugged US-style 'pick-up' small truck.)
Bob Hope = soap/dope (marijuana)
Bowl of fruit = suit
Brace and bit = shit, or arguably more commonly tit (breast)
Brittos/Britneys (Britney Spears) = beers
Bulli pass = arse (Bulli is pronounced Bull-eye)
Butchers (butchers hook) = crook/look (Larry Hall, Oct 2007 says: "...Butcher's hook in Australian rhyming slang means only crook (in turn meaning sick, off-colour, hung-over), as in for example, '...Struth I'm butchers, I'm as crook as Rookwood...' - Rockwood being the oldest and major Sydney cemetery. Butcher's hook is never used for 'look' as it is in Cockney slang; Captain Cook is used for 'look'...")
Captain Cook = look
Cat's hiss = piss
Charlie (Charlie Wheeler) = woman (sheila)
Comic-cuts = guts
Country cousin = dozen
Dad 'n' Dave = shave
Daptoes (Dapto Dogs) = wogs (offensive racist term - Dapto is a Dog track in NSW - the following additional information is provided by Larry Hall, October 2007: "...I was raised in Dapto; a town notable only for its greyhound race-track. The weekly event was known simply as the Dapto dogs. The derogatory term 'Dapto dogs' was used only as a slang euphemism for 'wogs' meaning Mediterraneans, not for blacks. Also 'chockoes' = chocolate frogs. MacRobertson’s chocolates made a small chocolate frog for kids named 'Freddo' so freddo-frogs, or freddoes for short, also became a derogatory term in the post-war immigration period for Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, etc...")
David Gower = shower (as in a bathroom or changing-room shower - David Gower, English cricketer and great batsman, played many times against Australia. Many will remember him also for notoriously 'buzzing' the field of play flying a Tiger/Gypsy Moth biplane while his team-mates batted against a Queensland side towards the end of England's 1990-91 tour.)
Dead horse = (tomato) sauce
Dickory dock = clock
Dog and bone = phone
Dog's eye = pie
Dry rots = trots (diarrhea)
Ducks and drakes = shakes
Ducks and geese = police
Eau de cologne = phone
Fiddly-dids = quids
Gay and hearty = party
Germaine Greer = ear
German band = hand (particularly used in plural: 'Germans' for hands - this slang originated in England, among some others in this list)
Gin sling = ring (eg., phone ring)
Ginger Meggs = legs
Goose's neck = cheque
Gregory Peck = cheque/neck
Grey-nurse = purse (a grey-nurse is a type of shark)
Ham and eggs = legs
Hammer (hammer and tack) = back
Hard hit = shit
Harold (Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister who disappeared while swimming) = bolt (run away)
Hey-diddle-diddle = middle; piddle
Hoffman brick = dick (penis)
Horse and cart = fart
Horse's hoof = poof (offensive term for a male homosexual)
I suppose = nose
Jam tart = heart
Jack and Jill = bill (restaurant bill)/pill (contraceptive)
Jatz crackers = knackers (testicles - the wife of a hen-pecked husband is said to have his jatz crackers in her grey-nurse (meaning purse - grey-nurse is a type of shark)
Jimmy Britts = shits
Jimmy Dancer = cancer
Joe Blake(s)/Joey Blake(s) = snake/shake(s)
Joe Hunt = (unmentionable)
Johnny Bliss = piss
Johnny Horner = corner
John Hopper = copper (policeman)
Lemon squash = wash
Lionel Rose = nose (Lionel Rose was Australia's first Aboriginal world champion boxer. He became Bantamweight champion in 1968.)
Loop-the-loop = soup
Mal Meningas = fingers ( Mal Meninga was a prominent rugby league footballer in the 1980s and 90s.)
Mallee root = prostitute
Metric miles = piles (haemhorroids)
Mickey Fritt = shit
Mickey Mouse = grouse
Mollo/molly the monk = drunk
Moreton Bay fig = wig (Moreton Bay is the large bay near Brisbane. It was originally Morton's Bay, named by Captain Cook in 1770 after James Douglas, Earl of Morton, the Past-President of the Royal Society, but the spelling changed by about the 1880s. Ack TW)
Mort's dock = cock (penis - Mort's dock was a shipping berth in Sydney harbour for loading export wool from the major wool dealers Elders, Smith, Goldsborough, Mort Ltd., ack Larry Hall.)
(on the) Murray Cod = (on the) nod (on credit)
Mystery bags = snags (sausages)
Nanny-goat = tote
Near and far = bar
Ned Kelly - belly
Niagaras (Niagara Falls) = balls (testicles)
Noah's Ark = shark
Now is the hour = shower
Oliver Twist = pissed
Onka (Onkaparinga) = finger (thus Onkaparingas = fingers - Onkaparinga is the brand name of a high quality Australian wool blanket, ack L Hall.)
Optic nerve = perve (pervert)/look (have a look)
Oxford scholar = dollar
Pat Malone = alone (on my own/on your own)
Piccadily = chilly
Pig's ear = beer
Pot of good cheer = beer
Red hot = pot (of beer)
Red hots = trots (horse-racing)/(diarrhea)
Reginalds (Reg Grundies) = undies (underwear)
Rhodes scholar = dollar
Rifle range = change
Rodney Hogg = Bog (toilet or related verb meaning - Rodney Hogg was an Australian fast bowler who played in tests 1978-85.)
Rubbity-dub = pub
Sandy McNab = cab
Saint Louis Blues = shoes
Seppo/Septic tank = yank
Snake's hiss = piss
Soldiers bold = cold
Spanish dancer = cancer
Steak and kidney = Sydney
Sticky beak = peek
Stiff shitty = city
Stock and die = pie, or arguably more commonly tie (neck tie)
This and that = hat
Tin tank = yank
To and from = pom
Tom Tits = shits (diarrhoea)
Trams and trains = brains/drains
Tray bits = shits (diarrhoea - in pre-decimal currency days a tray bit or trizza, trizzy was a three-penny coin - see the slang money page glossary of slang money words)
Trizzy bits = shits (diarrhoea - see tray bits - a trizzy bit was slang for a threepennny coin)
Wally (Wally Grout, Australian wicket-keeper) = shout (turn to pay, normally to buy a round of drinks)
Warwicks (Warwick Farm) = arms (arm)
Williamstown piers = ears
Woolly woofta = (offensive term for a homosexual)
You beaut = ute (utility vehicle - predates Blundstone by 50 years, ack Larry Hall)
Young and old = cold
Zubrick = prick (penis - possibly related to Arabic? If you know please contact us.)
(Ack P Hosford, K Mitchell, C Scott, S Yates, T Webster, R Harland, J Brown, J Cox, and particularly thanks to Larry Hall for his many contributions and several helpful corrections)
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