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Origin of Cockney Rhyming slang
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Tough Guy no. 1265
Aug 21, 2015, 2:16:02 PM8/21/15
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Iron Hoof = Poof
Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
Where do these phrases come from?
For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
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What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?
Lipstick, if he's lucky.
Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
Where do these phrases come from?
For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
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What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?
Lipstick, if he's lucky.
Joe Fineman
Aug 21, 2015, 3:34:06 PM8/21/15
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One would expect "iron hoof" to turn out to mean *something*, but the
OED does not have it.
> Where do these phrases come from?
>
> For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that
> causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
There was no *requirement* for the choice to be amusing or otherwise
appropriate. For example, another name for wife was "Duchess of Fife"
(often shortened to "Dutch", as in the song "My Old Dutch").
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OED does not have it.
> Where do these phrases come from?
>
> For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that
> causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
appropriate. For example, another name for wife was "Duchess of Fife"
(often shortened to "Dutch", as in the song "My Old Dutch").
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--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: Dress for success: wear a white penis. :||
Tough Guy no. 1265
Aug 21, 2015, 3:38:43 PM8/21/15
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:34:52 +0100, Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> writes:
>
>> Iron Hoof = Poof
>> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> One would expect "iron hoof" to turn out to mean *something*, but the
> OED does not have it.
>
>> Where do these phrases come from?
>>
>> For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that
>> causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
>
> There was no *requirement* for the choice to be amusing or otherwise
> appropriate. For example, another name for wife was "Duchess of Fife"
> (often shortened to "Dutch", as in the song "My Old Dutch").
At least "Duchess of Fife" means something.
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> writes:
>
>> Iron Hoof = Poof
>> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> One would expect "iron hoof" to turn out to mean *something*, but the
> OED does not have it.
>
>> Where do these phrases come from?
>>
>> For example "Trouble and Strife" is an amusing insult for a wife that
>> causes such, as well as rhyming with wife.
>
> There was no *requirement* for the choice to be amusing or otherwise
> appropriate. For example, another name for wife was "Duchess of Fife"
> (often shortened to "Dutch", as in the song "My Old Dutch").
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Don Phillipson
Aug 21, 2015, 6:21:45 PM8/21/15
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"Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message
news:op.x3qc0...@red.lan...
> Iron Hoof = Poof
> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> Where do these phrases come from?
Probably from your own inebriance.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
news:op.x3qc0...@red.lan...
> Iron Hoof = Poof
> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> Where do these phrases come from?
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Tough Guy no. 1265
Aug 21, 2015, 6:27:34 PM8/21/15
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:02:58 +0100, Don Phillipson <e9...@spamblock.ncf.ca> wrote:
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:op.x3qc0...@red.lan...
>
>> Iron Hoof = Poof
>> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>>
>> Where do these phrases come from?
>
> Probably from your own inebriance.
Or London you ignoranus.
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:op.x3qc0...@red.lan...
>
>> Iron Hoof = Poof
>> Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>>
>> Where do these phrases come from?
>
> Probably from your own inebriance.
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Jerry Friedman
Aug 24, 2015, 1:15:43 PM8/24/15
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On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 1:34:06 PM UTC-6, Joe Fineman wrote:
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> writes:
>
> > Iron Hoof = Poof
> > Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> One would expect "iron hoof" to turn out to mean *something*, but the
> OED does not have it.
...
> "Tough Guy no. 1265" <n...@spam.com> writes:
>
> > Iron Hoof = Poof
> > Iron Hoofter = Poofter.
>
> One would expect "iron hoof" to turn out to mean *something*, but the
> OED does not have it.
It (in quotation marks) is a horseshoe in this page from 1893:
https://books.google.com/books?id=OIQgAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA15
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Jerry Friedman
Tough Guy no. 1265
Aug 24, 2015, 1:47:22 PM8/24/15
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