Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Friday, May 10, 2013

Hair play

Lunatic Fringe (Liffey St, Dublin)
Klassique Kuts (Rostrevor, Co. Down)
Pro Coif (Friern Barnet)
The Cut Above (Thomas St, Dublin)
Clipper of the Yard (New Scotland Yard, Dacre St)
Headmasters (Bayswater)
Headonist (Milton Keynes)

Saturday, April 07, 2012

Monday, April 02, 2012

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Word of the Day


callipygian = having well-shaped buttocks

From Greek calli (beautiful) + pyge (buttocks)

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Money slang




funt = a pound
byce OR bottle = two pounds
carpet = three pounds
rofe = four pounds (backwards 4)
finnif OR jacks = five pounds
nevis = seven pounds (backwards 7)
cock = ten pounds (cock and hen)
score = twenty pounds
pony = twenty-five pounds
ton = one hundred pounds
monkey = five hundred pounds
G = a thousand pounds
gelt
bunce
sovs = pounds

Learnt on the job with Jackie Joseph in the Dutch auction (Stoke Newington, Putney, etc.) and Maurice Podro in The Lane (Wentworth Street) back in the days when Hoxton was a khazi