kaffies |
n. pl. |
trousers, slacks |
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kamp |
noun |
gay man |
acronym |
Known As Male Prostitute |
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kapella |
noun |
cloack |
Italian |
cappa = cloack + -ella = small |
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kapello |
noun |
hat, cap |
Italian |
cappello = hat |
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karsey |
noun |
house, toilet, brothel |
Italian & Spanish |
casa = house (It. casa chiusa = brothel) |
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ken |
noun |
house |
Cantobrigian |
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kenza |
adj. |
twelve |
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kerterver |
adj. |
bad |
Italian |
cattivo = bad, nasty, wicked |
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kerterver cartzo |
noun |
venereal disease |
Italian |
cattivo = bad + cazzo = penis |
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khazi |
noun |
lavatory, toilet |
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kosher homie |
noun |
Jewish man |
Hebrew kosher = pure + Polari homie = man |
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lady |
noun |
gay man |
jocular |
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lag(e) |
noun |
inmate, prisoner |
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verb |
to urinate |
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lallie, lall(y) |
noun |
a leg |
from rhyming lally peg - leg |
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lally covers, or lally drags |
n. pl. |
trousers |
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lalls |
n. pl. |
legs |
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lamor |
noun |
a kiss |
French |
l'amour = the love |
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lappers |
n. pl. |
hands |
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large |
adj. |
superlative |
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lattie |
noun |
home, house, flat, room |
Parlyaree lattie = lodgings used by itinerant actors |
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lattie on water |
noun |
a ship |
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lattie on wheels |
noun |
a car, a taxi |
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latty |
noun |
home, house, flat, room |
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lau |
verb |
to place, to put |
English lay = put in horizontal position |
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lav |
noun |
a word |
bona lavs = greetings, best wishes |
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lell |
verb |
to take |
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lepta |
adj. |
eleven |
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letch water |
noun |
pre-cum |
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letties |
noun |
lodgings |
Italian letti = beds |
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letty |
noun |
a bed |
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verb |
to sleep |
Italian letti = beds |
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libbage |
noun |
bed, sleeping place |
Cantabrigian lib = to sleep |
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lills |
noun |
hands |
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lil(l)y |
noun |
the police |
Lilly Law = the police (the hands of the law) |
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ling grappling |
noun |
sex |
Italian lingua = tongue -> Polari ling = to stick the tongue out of the mouth |
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lingo |
noun |
foreign language |
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lippy |
noun |
foreign language |
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long ledger |
adj. |
eleven |
ledger = ten, hence a "long ten" is eleven |
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lucoddy |
noun |
body |
Cockney rhyming |
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lullaby cheat |
noun |
a baby |
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luppers |
n. pl. |
fingers |
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lyle |
noun |
legs |
Perhaps from Anglo-Chinese lai-lo = come here rhyming |
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