29 January 2010
Q.What year was the last cockney born?
A.Cockneys are still being born every day. There were none born from 1941 to 1961, due to the bells of St Mary-le-Bow being destroyed in the Blitz.
Related questions
Q.What does kettle mean in cocney language
A.Cockneys call a watch a kettle, as 'kettle and hob' rhymes with fob, which is a pocket watch. Barnet (Fair) means hair, and butchers (hook) means look.
Q.Y r cockneys called cockneys
A.The term cockney derives from cock & egg, meaning a person ignorant of country ways. A true cockney is born within the sound of Bow Bells in London.
Q.How much money is a score?
A.Cockney money: £1 quid, £5 fiver, £10 tenner/Ayrton/Pavarotti, £20 score, £25 pony, £30 carpet, £100 ton, £500 monkey, £1,000 grand, £2,000 archer.
Q.Who sang come up and see me and make me smile?
A.Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) was a number 1 hit in Feb 1975 for Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Duran Duran (1984) & Erasure have covered it (2003).
Q.Why in football when a player puts the ball through another players legs is it called a nutmeg
A.Nutmeg is the Cockney rhyming slang for leg. In the 1940s, the term began being used for passing the ball between a player's legs & regaining it after.