Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

Rhyming slang is believed to have originated in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s.

Rhyming slang, in keeping with the rest of the language, is at the mercy of what one might loosely refer to as " false etymology ".

Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.

Rhyming slang is often used as a substitute for words regarded as taboo, often to the extent that the association with the taboo word becomes unknown over time.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

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Rhyming slang developed the alternative form ' Raspberry Tart ', later shortened to ' Raspberry ', and occasionally ' Razz '.

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Rhyming slang was particularly used in British comedy to refer to things which would be unacceptable to a polite audience.

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* a slang term for sexual intercourse derived from the Cockney Rhyming Slang expression ' nook and cranny ', meaning ' fanny ', or British army slang from Arabic niki, " I fuck "-a slang term referring specifically to the vagina.

With one notable exception ( Rhyming Poem ), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliterative verse for its structure and any rhyme included is merely ornamental.

Another important source for Old Dutch is the so-called Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible ( Dutch: Rijnlandse Rijmbijbel and German: Rheinische Reimbibel ).

Zauriel is given the mission to destroy the Shadowpact member Blue Devil, who has been demoted to the rank of a Rhyming Demon in Hell's hierarchy.

The Rhyming Poem, also written as The Riming Poem, is a poem of 87 lines found in the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of Old English poetry.

" Sweet Avenue ", the final track of Orange Rhyming Dictionary, is often attributed to Damien Rice due to misattribution on peer-to-peer networks.

Rhyming was most popular during the sponge fishing of the 1930s ( the sponges having been killed by a fungus ), and Peter Elliot is considered the best rhymer.

His Royalty is stripped, and he is demoted to the position of Rhyming Demon-Etrigan's plan all along.

* Blue Devil-Daniel Cassidy is a former Hollywood stuntman cursed by the demon Neron, now demoted to Rhyming Demon.

Orange Rhyming Dictionary is the debut album by American rock band Jets to Brazil, released October 27, 1998 on Jade Tree Records.

Rhyming for rhyming's sake and stuff ; and the worst thing of all is that it drew full crowd participation every night.

Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry.

Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, one of the oldest, lists words in alphabetical order of the reversed word, with an appendix covering the differently spelled but homo-phonic endings.

Since the release of Ours Is The Kingdom Forefather have collaborated with numerous musicians on the Folkearth CD A Nordic Poem ( with the song " Rhyming With Thunder ") as well as featuring on the Perverted Taste Burzum tribute CD with their version of " Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament ".

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Mature works, like The Book of Good Love and Rhyming Book of the Palace, were not included in the genre until the 1300s.

Hotten's Dictionary included a " Glossary of the Rhyming Slang ", the first known such work.

Rhyming in the Celtic Languages takes a drastically different course from most other Western rhyming schemes despite strong contact with the Romance and English patterns.

* Herkimer Fraggle ( performed by Richard Hunt )-A Fraggle who serves as the property caretaker of Rhyming Rock.

* Uncle Gobo ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-Uncle Traveling Matt's uncle, Gobo's great-uncle and greatest Fraggle explorer only seen in flashbacks as seen in " Born to Wander " and " The Riddle of Rhyming Rock.

Others involved Bert wanting to pursue a boring or unreasonable hobby but Ernie asks him to play a simple game with him ( The Rhyming Game IE ) but when Bert refuses Ernie makes puns to get him into the game and finally when Bert begins to enjoy himself Ernie wants to do something else and asks him and Bert to desert the game much to Bert's dismay.

Just as rhyme was seen in some Anglo-Saxon poems ( e. g. The Rhyming Poem, and, to some degree, The Proverbs of Alfred ), the use of alliterative verse continued into Middle English.

The title Masnavi-I Ma ' navi means " Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning.

We deliberately perpetrated bad verse, and selected awkward rhymes from a Ripman's Rhyming Dictionary.

Rhyming songs kept the names of Cagot families known.

As a girl she contributed verses and tales to magazines under the pseudonym of Orris, but her first ( anonymous ) volume, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, which came from an established London publisher, did not appear until her thirtieth year.

It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase " green room " predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely.

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The group's first album, Orange Rhyming Dictionary, was released on Jade Tree Records in 1998.