Polari/English ; a boy's town chat for the chaps ~
by no means complete..as with all words, their power changes over time, some are used forever, others fall by the wayside but that's wot brings a smile to my face..one with the hand is worth two in the bush, remember beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone..strike me pink m8..hahaHa
| ajax | nearby (from adjacent?) |
| basket | the bulge of male genitals through clothes |
| batts | shoes |
| bijou | small |
| bod | body |
| bold | daring |
| bona | good |
| butch | masculine; masculine lesbian |
| camp | effeminate (origin: KAMP = Known As Male Prostitute) |
| capello | hat |
| carts/cartso | penis |
| carsey | toilet, also spelt khazi |
| chicken | young boy |
| charper | search |
| charpering omi | policeman |
| cod | naff, vile |
| cottage | public loo (particularly with reference to cottaging) |
| cottaging | having or looking for sex in a cottage |
| crimper | hairdresser |
| dish | an attractive male; buttocks |
| dizzy | scatterbrained |
| dolly | pretty, nice, pleasant |
| drag | clothes, esp. women's clothes |
| ecaf | face (backslang) |
| eek | face (abbreviation of ecaf) |
| ends | hair |
| esong | nose |
| fantabulosa | wonderful |
| feele | child |
| fruit | queen |
| gelt | money |
| glossies | magazines |
| handbag | money |
| hoofer | dancer |
| jarry | food, also mangarie |
| kaffies | trousers |
| khazi | toilet, also spelt carsey |
| lallies | legs |
| latty | room, house or flat |
| lills | hands |
| lilly | police (Lilly Law) |
| luppers | fingers |
| mangarie | food, also jarry |
| measures | money |
| meese | plain, ugly (from Yiddish) |
| meshigener | nutty, crazy, mental |
| metzas | money |
| mince | walk (affectedly) |
| naff | bad, drab (from Not Available For Fucking) |
| nanti | not, no |
| national handbag | dole |
| nishta | nothing, no |
| oglefakes | glasses |
| ogles | eyes |
| omi | man |
| omi-polone | effeminate man, or homosexual |
| onk | nose |
| orbs | eyes |
| palare pipe | telephone |
| palliass | back (as in cpart of body) |
| park | give |
| plate | feet; to fellate |
| polari | chat, talk |
| polone | woman |
| pots | teeth |
| riah/riha | hair |
| riah shusher | hairdresser |
| scarper | to run off (from Italian scappare, to escape) |
| scotch | leg |
| sharpy | policeman |
| shush | steal (from client) |
| shush bag | holdall |
| shyker/shyckle | wig |
| slap | makeup |
| strillers | piano |
| thews | = thighs |
| trade | sex |
| troll | to walk about (esp. looking for trade) |
| vada/varda | see |
| willets | breasts |
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