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It is London slang, but it isn't necessarily Rhyming slang. In fact, these terms are generally understood to have originated as racing/bookmakers' slang, and g
by JdeBP 6y ago
It is London slang, but it isn't necessarily Rhyming slang. In fact, these terms are generally understood to have originated as racing/bookmakers' slang, and go back to at least the end of the 18th century. This is a 19th century slang dictionary.
* https://archive.org/details/slangdictionarye00hottuoft/page/258/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/slangdictionarye00hottuoft/page/...
- 082349872349872 6y agoOne of those lemmata casts doubt on the veracity of "Port Out, Starboard Home." I also enjoyed the dual meanings of pot-walloper, similar to "cutting coupons" shifting semantics at opposite ends of the NRS social grades.
- kencausey 6y agoAt first I was skeptical and assumed that you had not realized the parent comment to which I had replied. But I checked and was still skeptical when I checked 'monkey' but indeed there was an alternate definition that was numerical. However I can't find one for 'donkey'. But maybe the parent's memory is faulty or more recent slang has added these numerical denotations in a greater context than just the parent's past workplace.