English to Slang Dictionary
advice
lump of ice
all right
harbor light
alligator
see you later
alone
Darby and Joan
telephone
Tod Sloan
arm
Chalk Farm
false alarm
five-acre farm
arms
fire-alarms
Warwick farms
army
Kate Karney
ate
clean your plate
aunt
Mrs. Chant
baby
basin of gravy
back
hammer and tack
last card in the pack
bad
shepherd's plaid
sorry and sad
bag
Harry Tag
baker
Long Acre
banana
Gertie Gitana
band
if and and
bank
chain and crank
clink and blank
iron tank
J. Arthur Rank
raffle and crank
rattle and clank
shovel and tank
beard
just as I feared
beat
you little cheat
beauty
do your duty
bed
roses red
skein of thread
Uncle Ned
beef
stop thief
believe
Christmas Eve
belly
Auntie Nellie
Derby Kelly
Ned Kelly
pot of jelly
best
east and west
bet
National debt
bike
clever mike
do as you like
Pat and Mike
bird
how absurd
boat
frog-in-the-throat
I'm afloat
nanny goat
body
Tom Noddy
boil
Conan Doyle
bombs
Derry and Toms
book
Captain Cook
Joe Hook
boots
Burdett Coutts
daisy roots
German flutes
piccolos and flutes
roots
bore
nevermore
boss
Joe Goss
pitch and toss
boy scout
Brussels sprout
boy
hobbledehoy
Mark Foy
pride and joy
Rob Roy
Saveloy
bread
needle and thread
Uncle Fred
breath
king death
true till death
bricks
Dublin tricks
broke
coals and coke
hearts of oak
broom
bride and groom
brother
one and t'other
brush
blackbird and thrush
song of the thrush
bucket
Mrs. Duckett
bug
steam tug
bus
Camera Cuss
don't make a fuss
butter
Johnnie Rutter
lay me in the gutter
mutter and stutter
pull down the shutter
roll me in the gutter
slip in the gutter
stammer and stutter
button
hook of mutton
cab
flouder and dab
Sandy MacNab
cake
give and take
Joe Blake
Sexton Blake
stomach ache
candle
Harry Randall
Jack Randle
cap
tip and tap
car
near and far
rattle and jar
card
six months' hard
Wilkie Bard
cash
oak and ash
sausage and mash
castle
big hastle
cat
brown hat
ceiling
fellow feeling
cell
flowery dell
chain
hair and brain
chair
here and there
I declare
I don't care
I'll be there
lion's lair
near and there
Vanity Fair
chairs
Owen Nares
cheat
daisy beat
check
Duke of Teck
goose's neck
total wreck
cheese
balmy breeze
bended knees
cough and sneeze
stand at ease
chief
chunk of beef
chilly
Uncle Willy
chime
Cockney rhyme
chin
Andy McGinn
Errol Flynn
Gunga Din
Jerry McGinn
out and in
thick and thin
church
lean and lurch
left in the lurch
clap
hat and cap
clock
dickory dock
hickory dock
clothes
these and those
clothes line
grape vine
club
rub-a-dub-dub
coat
all afloat
bucket afloat
hairy float
I'm afloat
ivory float
Quaker oat
cold
Cheltenham bold
Naughton and Gold
potatoes in the mould
silver and gold
warriors bold
cold
soldier bold
collar
arty roller
half-a-dollar
Oxford scholar
Tommy Roller
collar and tie
swallow and sigh
cook
babbling brook
cop (policeman)
dime a pop
John Hop
silk and top
spinning top
string and top
copper
Chopper
corner
Charlie Horner
Johnnie Horner
cousin
baker's dozen
cow
don't know how
coward
Charlie Howard
crash
sausage and mash
crook
Joe Hook
Joe Rook
babbling brook
crust
you must
cry
pipe your eye
cupboard
Mother Hubbard
cut
hickory nut
daily mail
daily tell the tale
dance
jig and prance
kick and prance
Nancy Prance
south of France
dance
Isle of France
dark
Noah's ark
daughter
bottle of water
soap and water
day
load of hay
deaf
Mutt and Jeff
die
cracks-a-cry
dimple
smart and simple
dinner
glorious sinner
Jimmy Skinner
Lilly and Skinner
Ned Skinner
saint and sinner
dirty
two-thirty
dog
cherry hog
frog a log
London fog
dogs
golliwogs
dollar
Charlie Roller
hoot and holler
Oxford scholar
scream and holler
door
grocery store
Rory O' Moore
Rosy O'Moore
doormat
tom cat
dozen
country cousin
dress
what a mess
ear
King Lear
Melbourne pier
ears
sighs and tears
tears and cheers
earth
full of mirth
easy
I'm feeling queasy
eat
Dutch Street
Dutch treat
egg
borrow and beg
tent peg
eight
garden gate
elevator
dumb waiter
south of the equator
eleven
heaven
engineer
ginger beer
everywhere
round and square
expense
thick and dense
eye
mince pie
pudding and pie
steak and kidney pie
eyes
applepies
baby's cries
kidney pies
mutton pies
face
boat race
cherry ace
chevy chase
chip and chase
chitney pace
deuce and ace
glass case
Jem Mace
trot and pace
fact
tin-tack
facts
brass tacks
fairy tail
post and rail
fake
kidstake
fat
Jack Sprat
feet
plates of meat
platters of meat
fever
Robinson and Cleaver
fiddle
Jerry Diddle
fight
read and write
fighter
reader and writer
typewriter
finger
lean and linger
fingers
longers and lingers
stick slingers
fire
Barney McGuire
I desire
Mick O'Dwyer
fish
Andy McNish
Lilian Gish
make a wish
fist
Oliver Twist
five
Jack's alive
sakes alive
flag
castle rag
flea
Bonnie Dundee
Jenny Lea
Nancy Lee
Phil MacBee
Willy Lee
you and me
fleas
stand at ease
flee
cabbage tree
flies
alderman's eyes
Nellie Blighs
floor
rolley roar
Rory O' Moore
flour
half-an-hour
flower
Cobar shower
flowers
April showers
early hours
happy hours
yours and ours
folks
soaks
food
don't be rude
fool
lump of school
foot
stay put
footpath
oats and chaff
forehead
center lead
fork
Duke of York
roast pork
four
door to door
free
yet to be
fun
awful pun
gal
fal
rob my pal
garden
Dolly Varden
Enoch Arden
ghost
pillar and post
girl
Bob's my pal
ivory-pearl
mother of pearl
ocean pearl
twist and twirl
winds do whirl
glasses
chews and molasses
Irish lasses
Lancashire lasses
mountain passes
glove
turtle dove
go slow
Jimmy Low
go
Scapa Flow
gold
hot and cold
good
Robin Hood
Wee Georgie Wood
gravy
army and navy*
guard
calico yard
Christmas card
gutter
bread and butter
hair
Barnet Fair
bonny fair
Fanny Blair
half-a-dollar
half an Oxford scholar
half
cow and calf
ham
what am
hammer
Paddy Rammer
windjammer
hand
brass band
German band
ivory band
Martin-Le-Grand
Mary Ann
wedding band
handle
Harry Randall
hands
Brighton sands
handy
hash-me-gandy
happy
mammy and pappy
harm
Chalk Farm
hat
ball and bat
barrel of fat
hard and flat
lean and fat
this and that
head
alive or dead
crust of bread
Kelly Ned
loaf of bread
lump of bread
lump of lead
ruby red
heart
gooseberry tart
horse and cart
puff and dart
raspberry tart
hill
Jack and Jill
hit
not a whit
hit the hay (go to bed)
Botany Bay
holler
rumpty dollar
home
gates of Rome
top of Rome
hope
leg rope
hot
Malcolm Scott
stew pot
house
cat and mouse
flea and louse
rat and mouse
trap and mouse
hug
broken mug
hundred and first
hundred and worst
hustle
Johnnie Russell
jacket
steam packet
jail
bucket and pail
ginger ale
head and tail
jug and pail
lard and pail
moan and wail
whale and gale
jaw
jackdaw
jazz
razz-ma-tazz
jewelry
tomfoolery
joke
oak
judge
Barnaby Rudge
inky smudge
smear and smudge
key
Jenny Lea
kick
Paddy Quick
kid
dustbin lid
heavenly bliss
hit or miss
saucepan lid
knees
biscuits and cheese
bugs and fleas
high seas
knife
charming wife
drum and fife
Duke of Fife
husband and wife
man and wife
knock
rumble and shock
lace
pig's face
lark
Bushy Park
late
fish bait
Harry Tate
tiddler's bait
later
alligator
laugh
cow and calf
lawyer
Tom Sawyer
leave
Adam and Eve
leg
clothes peg
Scotch peg
legs
bacon and eggs
Dutch pegs
fried eggs
mumbley pegs
liar
Dunlop tire
lice
boys on ice
lie
collar and tie
life
fork and knife
light
white knight
limousine
seldom seen
limp
gimp
lip
tumble and trip
lips
apple pips
sherry flips
liver
cheerful giver
look
butcher's hook
Captain Cook
Captain Hook
give a cook
looking-glass
snake in the grass
love
heavens above
lunch
kidney punch
mad
striped and plaid
man
heavenly plan
married
cash and carried
cut and carried
dot and carried
master
lath and plaster
match (fire)
Colney Hatch
itch and scratch
Jack Scratch
matches
cuts and scratches
mate
china plate
meat
Dirty feet
menu
me and you
Mike
Yorkshire tyke
milk
Charlie Dilke
satin and silk
yellow silk
miss (a girl)
cuddle and kiss
missus
cheese and kisses
cows and kisses
money
bees and honey
pot of honey
sugar and honey
Tom and funny
moon
red balloon
morning
gipsy's warning
maids adorning
mother
one or the other
moustache
dot and dash
whip and lash
whip and slash
mouth
dip south
east and south
new south
north and south
sunny south
nail
Daily Mail
monkey's tail
name
who's to blame
naughty
raughty
navy
plain and gravy
pudding and gravy
soup and gravy
neck
bushel and peck
by the peck
half a peck
hurricane deck
three quarters of a peck
train wreck
upper deck
nerves
West Ham Reserves
newspaper
skyscraper
nice
sugar and spice
night
black and white
take a fright
Tom Right
nine
wheedle and whine
no
Brown Joe
no good
chunk of wood
noise
box of toys
little boys
nose
I suppose
Irish rose
ruby rose
these and those
not bad
Chesapeake shad
old man (husband)
old pot and pan
one
big bun
onions
corns and bunions
organ
Molly O'Morgan
pain
in the brain
Kennington Lane
pants
bull's aunts
fleas and ants
uncles and aunts
paper
linen draper
pardon
garden
park
light and dark
Noah's ark
party
gay and hearty
penny
Abergavenny
Kilkenny
pepper
high-stepper
phone
Darby and Joan
dog and bone
eau de Cologne
piano
apple and banana
pictures
fleas and itchers
pie
smack in the eye
pillow
weeping willow
pillows
rolling billows
plan
spic and span
planet
marble and granite
plate
Harry Tate
one and eight
play
night and day
pocket
Davy Crockett
penny locket
sky rocket
pony
macaroni
poor
on the floor
pop
eavesdrop
porch
flaming torch
pretty
grimy and gritty
quart
pimple and wart
queen
twixt and tween
rain
Andy Cain
France and Spain
Mary Blane
pleasure and pain
rent
Burton on Trent
Duke of Kent
ride
too much pride
right
Isle of Wight
ring
ting-a-ling
river
bullock's liver
shake and shiver
road
frog and toad
hop toad
rocks
Salford Docks
room
birch broom
bride and groom
shovel and broom
rope
big dope
rotten
Johnnie Cotton
round the back
round the hay-stack
run away
Botany Bay
salad
sing a ballad
salt
squad, halt
sappy
Larry Happy
saw
bear's paw
Johnnie Raw
seat
crown sheet
see
cup of tea
sense
eighteen pence
seven
heaven
o my heaven
shabby
Westminster abbey
shark
Joan of Arc
Joe Mark
shave
Dad and Dave
dig in the grave
misbehave
ocean wave
shirt
Dicky dirt
dig and dirt
roll me in the dirt
throw me in the dirt
shoe
five to two
how-d'ye-do
howdy-do
shoes
ones and twos
shoot
put in the boot
shoulders
rocks and boulders
sick
half-a-lick
Uncle Dick
sight
flash of light
silly
daffadown dilly
dilly
Uncle Willy
sister
skin and blister
six
chop sticks
Joynson Hicks
Tom Mix
sixty-six
clickety click
sky
apple pie
slang
laughed and sang
slap
nap
sleep
Bo-Peep
hit the deep
sleep
plough the deep
slept
jumped and leapt
smart
time to start
smash
fancy sash
smile
mad mile
penny-a-mile
snack
last card in the pack
snake
Joe Blake
sneeze
bread and cheese
soap
Band of Hope
Cape of Good Hope
Charlie Hope
Jimmy Hope
socks
almond rocks
army rocks
Charlie Rocks
Jack-in-the-box
Joe Rocks
Nervo and Knox
Oscar Hocks
peppermint rocks
Tilbury Docks
Tommy Rocks
son
penny bun
pie and one
soup
bowl the hoop
gobblety goop
iron hoop
loop the loop
sparrow
bow and arrow
speak
bubble and squeak
spoon
blue moon
spuds
rosebuds
Steele Rudds
stairs
apples and pears
peaches and pears
start
puff and dart
Steve Hart
state
Harry Tate
steak
ben flake
Joe Blake
lean and lake
stew
Battle of Waterloo
boy in blue
garlic and glue
how-d'ye-do
stick
Paddy Quick
stick of chalk
careless talk
stocking
Silas Hocking
stools
April fools
stop
call a cop
Jollopp
story
Sam Cory
strangers
Glasgow Rangers
street
ain't it a treat
channel fleet
field of wheat
stump the chalk
walk
suit
bag of fruit
fiddle and flute
piccolo and flute
whistle and flute
suitcase
crowded space
sun
currant bun
penny bun
sweetheart
jam-tart
swim
cherubim
table
Cain and Abel
tail
alderman's nail
Daily Mail
Jonah's whale
tailor
Maidstone jailer
Sinbad the Sailor
tale
Daily Mail
talk
bowl of chalk
Charlie Chalk
tear
ginger beer
teeth
Hampstead Heath
Hounslow Heath
MacIntire and Heath
Newton Heath
slick and sleeth
unders and beneath
uppers and beneath
telephone
Maggie Mahone
ten
Uncle Ben
the other day
my mother's away
the stage
greengage
thirst
there first
thirteen
Dick Turpin
thirty-three
Gertie Lee
three
whoopdedee
throat
hairy goat
thunder
stand from under
tie, a
fourth of July
lambs fry
tie
mud in the eye
Peckham Rye
pig's fry
time
nickle and dime
tin tank
bank
tired
you're fired
toast
fig and post
pig and roast
toes
Oscar Joes
these and those
too true
too Irish stew
tools
April fools
top
traffic cop
towel
mortar and trowel
William Powell
town
Jim Brown
Joe Brown
up and down
track
hammer and tack
trail
hammer and nail
train
hall and rain
Mary Blane
snow and rain
struggle and strain
tray
Vicar of Bray
tree
bumblebee
tricks
lickety quicks
trouble
nap and double
trousers
Johnnie Rousers
ripsey rousers
trowel
bark and growl
truck
goose and duck
tub
rubbity rub
tune
stewed prune
twelve
Santa's elves
twenty-two
dinky doo
two
black and blue
two o'clock
blue o'clock
umbrella
Auntie Ella
Isabella
understand
dry land
vest
Sunday best
voice
Hobson's choice
Rolls Royce
Walter Joyce
wages
greengages
walk
ball and chalk
ball of lead
tomahawk
watch
Gordon and Gotch
hopscotch
water
didn't ought ter
dirty daughter
fisherman's daughter
miller's daughter
mother and daughter
Neptune's daughter
son and daughter
squatter's daughter
way
Edna May
weary
Dan O'Leary
weather
tar and feather
wheel
fillet of veal
whiskers
brothers and sisters
wife
carving knife
drum and fife
Duchess of Fife
joy of my life
storm and strife
struggle and strife
trouble and strife
war and strife
worry and strife
word
Dicky bird
mocking bird
year
front and rear
yes
Brown Bess
Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.
(from Rick Walton's Fun Stuff)
Last updated: October 25, 2002
Copyright 2001 © Rick Walton. All rights reserved.
