Dictionary of Polari Words and Phrases

Andrea : Andrew
Auntie : Father
Crystal : Christ
Davina : David
Dowry butch : Almighty
Duchess : LORD
Fantabulosa Fairy : Holy Ghost
Get her : Get thee behind me, Satan
Gloria : God
I AM WHAT I AM I don't need praise, I don't want pity : I AM THAT I AM
I've got your number, ducky : I know thy works
Jane : John
Josephine : Joseph
Josie : Jesus
Kosher Homie : Hebrew
Kosher Homies and Palones : Hebrews
Kosher palones : Hebrew women
Larlou : Amen
Lucille : Luke
Marcia : Mark
Matilda : Matthew
Norah : Noah
Pauline : Paul
Petra : Peter
Phyllis : Philip
Sadie : Satan
Simone : Simon
Steve : Eve
a dowriest cod : an abomination
a stretcher case : weary
acting dickey : work
acting dickeys : labours
affair : lover
affairs : lovers
ajax : nigh
alcopop : vinegar
any road up : and it came to pass
aqua : water
aquas : waters
aunt nell : hearken
aunt nelled : hearkened
aunt nelleth : heareth
aunt nells : ears
aunt nelly fake : earring
aunt nelly fakes : earrings
aunties : fathers
back slum : inner chamber
bad style : pestilence
badge cove : old man
badge coves : old men
badgeness : old age
bagadga : privy member
bamboozle : confound
bamboozled : confounded
barney : war
battyfang : destroy
battyfanged : destroyed
battyfangeth : destroyeth
battyfangs : destroys
beak : magistrate
beaks : magistrates
bean cove : young man
bean coves : young men
beandom : youth
benar : better
bencove : friend
bencoves : friends
bent : crooked
betty bracelets : scribes
bevvied : drunk
bevvy : sup
bevvy homie : drunkard
bevvying : drinking
big butch homie : giant
big butch homies : giants
bijou arkette : ark
bijou nochy : evening
bijou tabernaclette : tabernacle
bijoux tabernaclettes : tabernacles
billingsgate : blasphemy
billingsgated : profaned
billingsgates : blasphemies
billingsgateth : blasphemeth
bimbo : fool
binco : lamp
binco fakement : fire
bincos : lamps
bitaine : whore
bitainedom : whoredom
bitainedoms : whoredoms
bitaining : whoring
bodega : market
bodega homie : merchant
bodega homies : merchants
bodegas : markets
bolus : apothecary
bona : righteous
bona lav : blessing
bona lavs : blessings
bonafy : sanctify
bonaness : righteousness
bond homie : bondman
bond palone : bondwoman
booth : chamber
box : rump
boyno : greetings
bugger off : depart from me
bugle : nostrils
butch : strong
butch homie : soldier
butch homies : soldiers
butch lattie : castle
butch latties : castles
butch lav : commandment
butch lavs : commandments
butch shriek : roar
butch shrieking : roaring
butch shriekings : roars
butcher : stronger
butchest : strongest
butchness : strength
buvare : drink
buvareth : drinketh
cackle : speech
cackle fart : egg
cackled : spoken
cackledst : saidth
cacklest : speakest
cackleth : speaketh
cackling : saying
cackling fakement : voice
cackling homie : preacher
camp : meek
campness : meekness
carnish : meat
caterver : trespass
catervers : trespasses
chant : song
chants : songs
charper : seek
charperest : seekest
charpereth : seeketh
charpering carsey : prison
charpering homie : guard
charpers : seeks
charver : fornicate
charvering : fornication
charvering donna : harlot
charvering donnas : harlots
chaud's mudge : foreskin
chavvie : child
chavvied : begat
chavvies : generations
chavvy : babe
chenter : hundred
chenters : hundreds
chinker : five
chinker dacha : fifty
chivvied : persecuted
chivvy : persecute
chivvying : persecution
choad : sceptre
chucking : casting
clobber : raiment
clovenplated : clovefooted
cod : bad
codness : iniquity
cods : iniquities
colin : horn
colins : horns
cottage : closet
cottages : closets
crimper : barber
crocus : physician
crocuses : doctors
dacha : ten
dachafold : tenfold
dachath : tenth
daffiness : drunkenness
daffy : drunken
dander : wroth
dewey : two
dewey dacha : twenty
dewey dachath : twentieth
deweyfold : twofold
dhobie : wash
dhobied : washed
dhobies : purifies
dinarly : money
dinge : pollution
dinged : fouled
dingy : polluted
dish : confess
dish the dirt : commune
dished the dirt : communed
dishing the dirt on : making mention of
dizzy : foolish
do the rights : avenge
dolly : pleasant
doob : tablet
doobs : tablets
dorcas : samaritan
dowrier : greater
dowriest : greatest
dowriest homie : king
dowriest homies : kings
dowriest palone : queen
dowriest palones : queens
dowrily : abundantly
dowriness : greatness
dowry : much
dowry aqua : flood
dowry aquas : floods
dowry butch : mighty
dowry cod : abomination
dowry cods : abominations
dowry efink : sword
dowry efinks : swords
dowry lattie : palace
dowry latties : palaces
dowry lupper : thumb
dowry munjarlee : feast
dowry munjarlees : feasts
drag queen : dragon
drag queens : dragons
dry : left
dry martini : left hand
efink : knife
efinks : knives
eke : head
ekes : faces
fabe : godly
fabed : blessed
fabely : gorgeously
fabeness : godliness
fabularity : majesty
fabulosa : wondrous
fabulosas : holies
fabulous : faithful
fabulously : faithfully
fairies : angels
fairy : angel
fakement : thing
fakements : things
famble : hand
famble cheat : ring
famble cheats : rings
famble palone : handmaid
fambles : hands
fancied : desired
fancy : desire
fantabulosa : excellent
fatcha : shave
fatcha fakement : razor
ferricadooza : slay
ferricadoozad : broke down
ferricadoozaed : slew
ferricadoozeth : slayeth
ferricadoza : kill
ferricadozad : killed
ferricadozadst : killedst
filiome : boy
filiomes : boys
filly : fair
foofs : breasts
fortuni : wonderful
frock : robe
frocks : robes
fungi : elders
gajo : outcast
gajos : fugitives
gardy loo : beware
gelt : treasures
gin and tonic : milk and honey
glossies : scriptures
glossy : scripture
gobsmacked : astonished
godly homie : priest
godly homies : priests
goolie : black
gracie : grace
gracies : graces
groinage : jewels
groinnage : bracelets
grovelling fakement : altar
hampstead : tooth
hampsteads : teeth
handbag : sack
has his wild up : is angry
hearing cheat : ear
hearing cheats : ears
heartface : wellbeloved
herd homies : herdmen
hettie : straight
hilda handcuffs : officers
holy carsey : temple
homie : man
homie affair : husband
homie affairs : husbands
homie ajax : neighbour
homie chavvie : son
homie chavvies : sons
homie palone : sodomite
homie palones : sodomites
homiekind : mankind
homies : men
homies and palones : people
homieservant : manservant
homieservants : menservants
jarried : swallowed
jarries : devours
jarriest : eatest
jarrieth : feedeth
jarry : swallow
joggering homie : minstrel
joggering homies : musicians
kapello : cloak
kenza : twelve
kerterver : sin
kerterver coddy : sickness
kertervered : sinned
kerterverers : sinners
kertervereth : sinneth
kertervering : sinning
kertervers : sins
kertever : sin
kosher homie : jew
kosher homies : jews
lag : slave
lags : slaves
lall : receive
lalled : received
lallie : leg
lallies : legs
landladies : publicans
landlady : publican
lattie : house
lattie on water : ship
latties : houses
latties on water : ships
lau : send
laued : sent
laueth : putteth
lavs : word
lell : take
lelled : took
lelleth : taketh
lett : sit
letteth : dwelleth
lettie : rest
lettied : slept
letties : rooms
lettieth : lieth
letting : abiding
letty : sleep
lily law : pharisee
lily laws : pharisees
long dedger : eleven
lubed : annointed
lucoddy : body
lullaby cheat : infant
lullaby cheats : infants
lupper : finger
luppers : fingers
lycra : linen
mais oui : certainly
manjarry : food
manky : filthy
manly alice : strong man
manly alices : strong men
maria : seed
medzer : shekel
medzered : divided
medzers : shekels
meshigener : madness
meshigener carsey : church
meshigener carseys : churches
meshigener muttering : prayer
meshigener mutterings : prayers
metties : wealth
mille : thousand
milles : thousands
mince : walk
mince butchly : march
minced : walked
mincedst butchly : marchedst
minces : walks
minceth : walketh
mincing : walking
mincing butchly : marching
mogue : deceive
mogued : deceived
mudge : crown
mudges : bonnets
munge : darkness
munged : darkened
mungen : darken
naff : wicked
naffness : wickedness
nanas : evils
nanna : terrible
nanti : without
nanti bona : heathens
nanti charver : virgin
nanti charvers : virgins
nanti dinarly : poor
nanti dowrier : lesser
nanti dowriest : least
nanti dowry : less
nanti lucoddy : spirits
nanti nellyarda : deaf
nanti polari : dumb
nanti riah : baldness
nanti sparkle : unclean
nanti varda : blind
nanti wallop : lame
nanti zhoosh : nakedness
nellier : weaker
nelliest : weakest
nelliness : weakness
nelly : weak
nellyarda : listen
nellyardad : listened
nishta : no more
nishta ajax : afar
nishta cackle : silence
nishta dinarly : poverty
nishta dowry : few
nishta kosher homie : gentile
nishta kosher homies : gentiles
nishta lucoddies : sould
nishta lucoddy : soul
nishta manjarry : fast
nishta manjarryings : fastings
nishta parnie : drought
nishta smoke : wilderness
nishta sparkle : uncleanness
nishter : nothing
nishter ajax : far from
nishter bevvied : soberly
nistha manjarrying : fasting
nix : do not
nix munjarlee : hungy
nix munjarlees : famines
no flies : in truth
nobber : nine
nobber dacha : ninety
nochy : night
nylon : woolen
ogle : eye
ogle riders : eyebrows
ogles : eyes
oney : one
otter : eight
otter dacha : eighty
otterth : eighth
palaver : fight
palavered : fought
palone : woman
palone affair : wife
palone affairs : wives
palone chavvie : daughter
palone chavvies : daughters
palone servant : maidservant
palone servants : maidservants
palones : women
pannan : manna
parker : sacrifice
parkered : paid
parkerest : recompensest
parkering : reward
parkering ninty : wages
parkerings : rewards
parkers : sacrifices
parnie : weep
parnied : wept
parniest : weepest
plate : hoof
plates : feet
pogey : small
pogier : smaller
pogiest : smallest
polari : tongue
polaris : tongues
princess : prince
princesses : princes
punters : congregation
quarter : fourth
quarter dacha : forty
quarterfold : fourfold
rattling cove : chariot
rattling coves : chariots
reef : touch
reefed : touched
reefeth : toucheth
reefing : touching
reefs : touches
riah : hairs
say dooe : eight
say dooefold : eightfold
scarper : flee
scarpered : escaped
scharda : shame
schmutter : apparel
schooner : bottle
schooners : bottles
schvartza : Ethiopian
scotch : leg
scotches : legs
screech : shout
screeched : declared
screeches : mouths
screecheth : crieth
screeching : shouting
screeve : write
screeved : wrote
screeving : writing
sea queen : fisher
sea queens : fishermen
serving homie : servant
serving homies : servants
setter : seven
setter dacha : seventy
setterfold : sevenfold
setterth : seventh
sey : six
sey dacha : sixty
sey trey : nine
sey treyfold : ninefold
seyfold : sixfold
seyth : sixth
sharper : steal
sharpered : stole
sharpering homie : thief
sharpering homies : thieves
sherry : wine
slap : smite
slapped : smote
slapped up : painted
slappest : smitest
slappeth : smiteth
slapping : violence
sling yer hook : go in peace
slingback : shoe
slingbacks : shoes
smellie : perfume
smelly : incense
smoke : city
smokes : cities
snuff it : die
snuffed it : died
snuffeth it : dieth
spanglies : vanities
spangly : vanity
sparkle : light
sparkles : lights
sparkleth : cleanseth
strillers : haps
sweet : right
sweet martini : right hand
the rights : vengeance
thews : sinew
thumping cheat : heart
thumping cheats : hearts
titter : laugh
tittered : laughed
tittering : laughter
tooting fakement : trumpet
trey : three
trey dacha : thirty
trey-dewey-dacha : threescore
treyfold : threefold
troll : wander
troll about : go about
troll after : follow
troll away : go away
troll back to : return to
troll by : pass by
troll forth : go forth
troll nishta away : go not away
troll not : go not
troll on : lead on
troll out : go out
troll over : pass over
trolled : went
trolled after : followed
trolled back : returned
trolled back to : returned to
trolled by : passed by
troller : sojourner
trollers : sojourners
trollest : goest
trolleth : sojourneth
trolleth back : returneth
trolling : running
trolling fakement : staff
trolling lettie : tent
trolling letties : tents
trollover : passover
trundling cheat : chariot
twinkling fakement : star
twinkling fakements : stars
una : one
unfabe : unholy
up my lattie : under my roof
up the duff : with child
varda : watch
varda the lavs : read
varda-eth : looketh
varda-ing fakement : witness
vardad : spied
vardaest : preceivest
vardaeth : seeth
vardaeth the lavs : readeth
vardaing : seeing
vardaing the lavs : reading
vardest : seest
wallop : dance
walloping : dancing
zelda : witch
zhoosh : pearls
zhooshed : dressed
zsa zsa : punish
zsa zsa-ed : punished
zsa zsa-ing : punishment