John Camden Hotten's 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words likewise states that it originated in the 1840s ("about twelve or fifteen years ago"), but with "chaunters" and "patterers" in the Seven Dials area of London.
John Camden Hotten's 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words likewise states that it originated in the 1840s ("about twelve or fifteen years ago"), but with "chaunters" and "patterers" in the Seven Dials area of London.
The Flash Dictionary of unknown authorship, published in 1921 by Smeeton (48mo), contains a few rhymes.
"To have a butcher's", meaning to have a look, originates from "butcher's hook", an S-shaped hook used by butchers to hang up meat, and dates from the late nineteenth century but has existed independently in general use from around the 1930s simply as "butchers".
Similarly, "use your loaf", meaning "use your head", derives from "loaf of bread" and also dates from the late nineteenth century but came into independent use in the 1930s. Conversely usages have lapsed, or been usurped ("Hounslow Heath" for teeth, was replaced by "Hampsteads" from the heath of the same name, stating c.
One episode in Series 5 of Steptoe and Son was entitled "Any Old Iron", for the same reason, when Albert thinks that Harold is 'on the turn'. === Music === In popular music, Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded "So 'Elp Me", based on rhyming slang, in 1950.
Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier, where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people.
The 1967 Kinks song "Harry Rag" was based on the usage of the name Harry Wragg as rhyming slang for "fag" (i.e.
The closing song of the 1969 crime caper, The Italian Job, ("Getta Bloomin' Move On" a.k.a.
The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit "Cockney Translation" by Smiley Culture of South London; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's "Cockney and Yardie".
In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven, the explanation for the term is that it derives from Barney Rubble, the name of a cartoon character from the Flintstones television program many decades later in origin. === Regional and international variations === Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.
"Taking the Mick" or "taking the Mickey" is thought to be a rhyming slang form of "taking the piss", where "Mick" came from "Mickey Bliss". In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity...
MF Doom released an ode entitled "Rhymin' Slang", after settling in the UK in 2010.
The track was released on the 2012 album JJ Doom album Keys to the Kuffs. Another contributor was Lonnie Donegan who had a song called "My Old Man's a Dustman".
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