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Kaffies to Large Lattie to Lyle
kaffies n. pl. trousers, slacks

kamp noun gay man
acronym Known As Male Prostitute

kapella noun cloack
Italian cappa = cloack + -ella = small

kapello noun hat, cap
Italian cappello = hat

karsey noun house, toilet, brothel
Italian & Spanish casa = house (It. casa chiusa = brothel)

ken noun house
Cantobrigian

kenza adj. twelve

kerterver adj. bad
Italian cattivo = bad, nasty, wicked

kerterver cartzo noun venereal disease
Italian cattivo = bad + cazzo = penis

khazi noun lavatory, toilet

kosher homie noun Jewish man
Hebrew kosher = pure + Polari homie = man


lady noun gay man
jocular

lag(e) noun inmate, prisoner

verb to urinate

lallie, lall(y) noun a leg
from rhyming lally peg - leg

lally covers, or lally drags n. pl. trousers

lalls n. pl. legs

lamor noun a kiss
French
l'amour = the love

lappers n. pl. hands

large adj. superlative

lattie noun home, house, flat, room
Parlyaree lattie = lodgings used by itinerant actors

lattie on water noun a ship

lattie on wheels noun a car, a taxi

latty noun home, house, flat, room

lau verb to place, to put
English lay = put in horizontal position

lav noun a word
bona lavs = greetings, best wishes

lell verb to take

lepta adj. eleven

letch water noun pre-cum

letties noun lodgings
Italian letti = beds

letty noun a bed

verb to sleep
Italian letti = beds

libbage noun bed, sleeping place
Cantabrigian lib = to sleep

lills noun hands

lil(l)y noun the police
Lilly Law = the police (the hands of the law)

ling grappling noun sex
Italian lingua = tongue -> Polari ling = to stick the tongue out of the mouth

lingo noun foreign language

lippy noun foreign language

long ledger adj. eleven
ledger = ten, hence a "long ten" is eleven

lucoddy noun body
Cockney rhyming

lullaby cheat noun a baby

luppers n. pl. fingers

lyle noun legs
Perhaps from Anglo-Chinese lai-lo = come here rhyming

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