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Mon 31 Dec, 2012 06:18 pm
A few I cannot get so help please.
Execution by drowning (6) I have N?YE?E.
Greek goddess (6) I have E???NA.I had Athena but it clashed with crossing word of retainer FEE.
Boots ......roots (5) I have ?A?SY.
Forestage (5) I have A????.
Hope this is not how I am going to spend 2013.philcottie
@philcottie,
Hi philcottie
NOYADE
EIRENE
DAISY
APRON
Good luck. Colossus all finished!
@Dutchy,
Thanks Dutchy colossus also all finished didnt understand Daisy Roots but figured it must be Cockney rhyming slang.philcottie
@philcottie,
Just googled up daisy roots and sure enough tis cockney slang for boots but what I cant understand is how you knew this not being (I suspect from English stock) with a name like dutchy, now prove me wrong on that score.philcottie
@philcottie,
Wrong mate. Born and bred in the Netherlands! Just researched the clue, that keeps me off the streets.
@Dutchy,
Well done mate keep going.
philcottie
@philcottie,
Quote:.....keeps me off the streets ...
....but I have a vague picture of Dutchy in his
syrup and
whistled up, going for a
ruby with his
chinas !
@fresco,
All Double Dutch to me fresco. However after consulting my Cockney dictionary it makes sense.
@philcottie,
Daisy roots was mentioned in a Lonnie Donegan song from way back, it was called My Old Mans a Dustman, it was a very funny song.
@fresco,
The words you have used a cockny slang,are l think syrup WIG, whistle & flute SUIT, Ruby murray (an irish singer from the 50s and 60s) CURRY and l believe if memory serves that china means MATES, because of china plates.
@margsy,
I get the other ones, but how is ' syrup' 'wig'?
@cherrie,
cherrie wrote:
I get the other ones, but how is ' syrup' 'wig'?
Syrup of fig (a common laxative in the days when people worried about being 'regular')
@contrex,
Thanks for that, makes sense now.
@cherrie,
Good God what have I started now.philcottie
@philcottie,
Cockney slang is interesting, it's like a whole different language.
Thanks for starting it.
@cherrie,
try Googling up Cockney Slang Dictionary and you will find some very interesting reading.philcottie
@cherrie,
lt is syrup of figs, wig.Do you understand, syrup of figs is a medicine that assists mother nature to do her work. haha
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL.
@philcottie,
I had a look at that, once I started I had trouble stopping, one thing leads to another. Cockneys must have a rather lateral way of thinking to come up with some of them.
@margsy,
Thanks Margsy, yes I do understand now.
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