Michael Hance ask on on FB “Ony o ye’s got ony guid examples o Scots rhyming slang – like ‘brown breid – deid’, ‘corn beef – deif’? Ma ain favourite is ‘bare naikit’ for ‘jaikit’. Ony ithers? An aye, I ken bare naikit disna work in NE speak jist afore onybody tells me”. Here a fyow o the replies.
- Askit (Askit pooder) – shooder
- Bengal Lancer – chancer
- Bert (Bert van Lingen) – mingin
- Brussels sprouts – douts
- chorus and verse – erse
- Duke of Argyles – piles
- Duke of Montrose – nose
- Elsie (Elsie Tanner) – wanner
- Finnieston ferry – herry (i.e. a wee hairy)
- Frankie Vaughans – hauns
- Jambos (Jam Tarts) – Hearts
- Jimmy Reid – heid
- Jimmy Riddle – piddle (ane o ma dad’s favourites!)
- Jimmy White – shite
- Joe (Baxi) – taxi (in Dundee)
- Lee Van (Cleef) – deif
- Lemon curd – burd
- Mick Jagger – lager
- Pansy Potters – jotters
- Pine(apple) – chapel
- Pink lint – skint
- Ruby Murray – curry
- Salvador Dali – swallie
- Sandy Shaws – baws
- Shammy leather – blether
- Shoot the craw – gau (Glesca pron o ‘go’)
- Single fish – pish
- The Harry Wraggs = The Jags (Patrick Thistle)
- Wim (Wim Jansen) – dancin
Here a cleek tae a langer airticle:
Lillo, A. 2004. ‘A Wee Keek at Scottish Rhyming Slang’. Scottish Language 23: 93-115.
And the buik pictert abune is Jockney Rhyming Slang (2006) by Robert Laidler an Mark Harvey, Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited