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Quiz about Truncated Cockney Rhyming Slang

Truncated Cockney Rhyming Slang Quiz

'Wife' in Cockney rhyming slang is 'trouble and strife' which usually gets shortened to 'trouble'. The rhyming portion of the slang expression is often dropped leaving only a word that bears no relation to the English word it represents. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by Cymruambyth. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Cymruambyth

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
242,082

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Your Cockney friend Alf ask you if you would "sausage a goose's" for him. What is he be asking you to do? Hint

Find him a job

Cash a cheque

Lend him your bike

Write a reference for him

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Question 2 of 10

2. Your Cockney mum might well say "Don't you raise your Hobson's to me!" What does Hobson's represent? Hint

Voice

Foot

Hand

Eyebrow

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Question 3 of 10

3. Your Cockney mum is exasperated with your brother Fred. "He left in such a hurry, he forgot his nanny." What did Fred forget? Hint

His hat

His backpack

His lunch

His coat

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Question 4 of 10

4. Your Cockney friend Alf suggests you take "a butcher's at his motor bike". What are you supposed to do? Hint

Clean it

Repair it

Ride it

Look at it

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Question 5 of 10

5. You're relaxing in your Cockney Aunty Lil's living room, when she tells you to get your plates off the coffee table. What did she ask you to do? Hint

Take the used plates and cups out to the kitchen

Put your roller skates on the floor

Put your dentures back in your mouth

Get your feet off the table

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Question 6 of 10

6. Your Cockney mum might advise your Cockney dad to put on a certain "dicky with his whistle". What is she recommending? Hint

A scarf that brings out the colour of his eyes

A tie that matches his shirt

A shirt that goes with the suit

Socks that match his shoes

7. You're entertaining your Cockney friends at a local Cockney night spot and you order a pig's for George, a tom for Mary and a mother's for yourself. What will the waiter bring to your table? Hint

Beer, wine and port

Beer, rum and gin

Gin, Scotch and milk

Champagne, rye, and lemonade

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Did you put out the this?" your Cockney mum asks you as you all prepare to turn in for the night. What were you expected to put out? Hint

The cat

The breakfast dishes

The light

The welcome mat

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Where's Bert?", asks your Cockney mum. "Down the frog," you respond. Where is Bert? Hint

Down in the cellar

Down the road

At the pub

At the bottom of the garden

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Question 10 of 10

10. Your Cockney mum worries about your brother Fred who is in "the daft". Where is Fred? Hint

In the navy

In prison

In the RAF

In the army

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Your Cockney friend Alf ask you if you would "sausage a goose's" for him. What is he be asking you to do?

Answer: Cash a cheque

He'd be giving you the shorthand version of "Can you sausage and mash (cash) a goose's neck (cheque)?" Tradition has it that the Cockneys were not above a little thievery and skullduggery and their rhyming slang was developed so that they could exchange information within earshot of a peeler (a policeman).

2. Your Cockney mum might well say "Don't you raise your Hobson's to me!" What does Hobson's represent?

Answer: Voice

The Cockney rhyming slang for 'voice' is 'Hobson's choice'. It's another example of dropping the word that rhymes with the English word, leaving only an unrelated word.

3. Your Cockney mum is exasperated with your brother Fred. "He left in such a hurry, he forgot his nanny." What did Fred forget?

Answer: His coat

A coat in Cockney rhyming slang is a "nanny goat". Again, the word that rhymes with the English word has been dropped. Cockney slang has been (and still is) evolving over the past 600 years. For instance, if you order a glass of cider in a pub where Cockney is spoken, you could ask for a Winona (Winona Ryder), which is a fairly recent addition to the Cockney dictionary. One wonders what Cockneys called cider before Ms Ryder hit stardom.

4. Your Cockney friend Alf suggests you take "a butcher's at his motor bike". What are you supposed to do?

Answer: Look at it

Alf is obviously very proud of his motor bike. "Butcher's" is the shortened version of butcher's hook (look). The word Cockney, by the way, is said by some to be derived from costermonger (I don't know how). A costermonger sold fruit - or other commodities - off a barrow. You can still see some in London these days.

5. You're relaxing in your Cockney Aunty Lil's living room, when she tells you to get your plates off the coffee table. What did she ask you to do?

Answer: Get your feet off the table

Your Aunty Lil doesn't want your feet (plates of meat) scuffing her coffee table! Aunty Lil, like all genuine Cockneys, was born within the sound of Bow Bells. St. Mary le Bow Church is in Cheapside, in the City of London. There has been a church on the site since the time of the Norman Conquest (perhaps even before), but the Bow Bells referred to in song and story hung in the steeple of the church designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace the original church destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

The steeple and its bells were demolished in 1941 during the blitz, but were restored in the 1950s.

6. Your Cockney mum might advise your Cockney dad to put on a certain "dicky with his whistle". What is she recommending?

Answer: A shirt that goes with the suit

A shirt in Cockney rhyming slang is a dicky dirt, and a suit is a whistle and flute - hence mum's recommendation that dad wear a certain shirt with his suit.

7. You're entertaining your Cockney friends at a local Cockney night spot and you order a pig's for George, a tom for Mary and a mother's for yourself. What will the waiter bring to your table?

Answer: Beer, rum and gin

George is going to have a beer (pig's ear, shortened to pig's). Mary will enjoy a glass of rum (Tom Thumb, shortened to tom) and you're going to guzzle gin (mother's ruin, shortened to mother's). You could have ordered a needle instead of a mother's, because needle and pin is also gin.

8. "Did you put out the this?" your Cockney mum asks you as you all prepare to turn in for the night. What were you expected to put out?

Answer: The cat

It is not uncommon for Brits - including Cockneys - to let the cat (the this and that, usually shortened to this) out for the night, seeing that cats like to roam around in the dark. If you'd like to learn more Cockney slang, log on to phespirit.com. Phespirit is a Cockney who has put together a concise dictionary of Cockney slang on line.

9. "Where's Bert?", asks your Cockney mum. "Down the frog," you respond. Where is Bert?

Answer: Down the road

Bert is just down the frog and toad, which naturally got shortened to frog. Well, it makes sense to Cockneys. One of the first Cockney slang sentences I ever learned was "I'm going down the frog and toad to the rub-a-dub-dub for a pen and ink." ("I'm going down the road to the pub for a drink.")

10. Your Cockney mum worries about your brother Fred who is in "the daft". Where is Fred?

Answer: In the army

Fred's probably in Iraq or Afghanistan, because in Cockney rhyming slang, the army is the daft and barmy (daft). No wonder mum's worried. The navy, however, is the soup and gravy (gravy), while the RAF is the blind and deaf (deaf). If Fred was in prison, he'd be in the dell (flowery dell=cell), or in the nick.

Source: Author Cymruambyth

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