The Polari Bible
The Polari Bible : The <A href="key.html#glossy"><em>glossy</em></A> of Genesis
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.
Maureen: Moses.
Norah: Noah.
Pauline: Paul.
Petra: Peter.
Phyllis: Philip.
Sadie: Satan.
Simone: Simon.
Steve: Eve.
a dowriest cod: an abomination.
a stretcher case: weary.
absolutely fantabulosa: perfect.
acting dickey: work.
acting dickeys: labours.
affair: lover.
affairs: lovers.
ajax: nigh.
alcopop: vinegar.
any road up: and it came to pass, nevertheless, yea.
aqua: water.
aquas: waters.
aunt nell: hear, hearken.
aunt nelled: heard, hearkened.
aunt nelleth: heareth.
aunt nelly fake: earring.
aunt nelly fakes: earrings.
aunties: fathers.
back slum: inner chamber.
bad style: pestilence.
badge: old.
badge cove: old man.
badge coves: old men.
badgeness: old age.
bagadga: privy member.
bamboozle: confound.
bamboozled: confounded.
barney: war.
basque: breastplate.
battyfang: destroy.
battyfanged: destroyed.
battyfangeth: destroyeth.
battyfangs: destroys.
beak: judge, magistrate.
beaks: judges, magistrates.
bean: young.
bean cove: lad, 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: little.
bijou arkette: ark.
bijou nochy: evening.
bijou tabernaclette: tabernacle.
bijoux tabernaclettes: tabernacles.
billingsgate: blasphemy, profane.
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: fine, good, gracious, righteous, sweet, worthy.
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: say, speak, speech, tell.
cackle fart: egg.
cackled: said, spake, spoken, told.
cackledst: saidth.
cacklest: speakest.
cackleth: speaketh.
cackling: saying.
cackling fakement: voice.
cackling homie: preacher.
camp: meek.
campness: meekness.
carnish: meat.
caterver: trespass.
catervers: trespasses.
cavalier: uncircumcised.
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: children, 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: chief, greatest.
dowriest homie: king.
dowriest homies: kings.
dowriest palone: queen.
dowriest palones: queens.
dowrily: abundantly.
dowriness: greatness.
dowry: great, much, very.
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: face, head.
ekes: faces, heads.
fabe: glorious, godly.
fabed: blessed.
fabely: gorgeously.
fabeness: glory, godliness.
fabularity: majesty.
fabulosa: holy, wondrous.
fabulosas: holies.
fabulous: faithful.
fabulously: faithfully.
fairies: angels, spirits.
fairy: angel, ghost, spirit.
fakement: possession, thing.
fakements: things.
famble: hand.
famble cheat: ring.
famble cheats: rings.
famble palone: handmaid.
famble palones: handmaids.
fambles: hands.
fancied: desired.
fancy: desire.
fantabulosa: excellent.
fatcha: shave.
fatcha fakement: razor.
ferricadooza: slay.
ferricadoozad: broke down.
ferricadoozaed: slew.
ferricadoozed: slain.
ferricadoozeth: slayeth.
ferricadoza: kill.
ferricadozad: killed.
ferricadozadst: killedst.
filiome: boy.
filiomes: boys.
filly: fair.
foofs: breasts.
fortuni: wonderful.
frock: garment, robe, skirt.
frocks: garments, robes, skirts.
fungi: elders.
gajo: outcast.
gajos: fugitives.
gardy loo: beware.
gelt: gold, treasure, treasures.
gin and tonic: milk and honey.
glossies: books, scriptures.
glossy: book, scripture.
gobsmacked: amazed, astonished.
gobsmacked-ness: astonishment.
godly homie: priest.
godly homies: priests.
goolie: black.
gossip: gospel.
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.
her: him.
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: eaten, swallowed.
jarries: devours.
jarriest: eatest.
jarrieth: feedeth.
jarry: eat, swallow.
joggering homie: minstrel.
joggering homies: musicians.
journo: day.
kapello: cloak.
kenza: twelve.
kerterver coddy: sickness.
kertervered: sinned.
kerterverers: sinners.
kertervereth: sinneth.
kertervering: sinning.
kertervers: sins.
kertever: sin.
kosher homie: jew.
kosher homies: jews.
ladies: lords.
lag: slave.
lags: slaves.
lall: receive.
lalled: received.
landladies: publicans.
landlady: publican.
lattie: house.
lattie on water: ship.
latties: houses.
latties on water: ships.
lau: send.
laued: delivered, sent.
laueth: putteth.
lav: word.
lavs: words.
lell: take.
lelled: laid, taken, took.
lelleth: taketh.
lett: abide, dwell, lay, sit.
letted: abode, dwelt.
letteth: abideth, dwelleth, liveth.
lettie: rest.
lettied: slept.
letties: rooms.
lettieth: lieth.
letting: abiding.
letty: sleep.
lily law: pharisee.
lily laws: pharisees.
long dedger: eleven.
lube: oil.
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: tread, walk.
mince butchly: march.
minced: walked.
mincedst butchly: marchedst.
minces: walks.
minceth: treadeth, walketh.
mincing: walking.
mincing butchly: marching.
mogue: deceive.
mogued: deceived.
mudge: crown.
mudges: bonnets.
munge: darkness.
munged: darkened.
mungen: darken.
naff: grievous, philistine, wicked.
naffness: wickedness.
naffs: philistines.
nana: evil.
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 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: neither, no more, nor.
nishta ajax: afar.
nishta cackle: silence.
nishta dinarly: poverty.
nishta dowry: few.
nishta kosher homie: gentile.
nishta kosher homies: gentiles.
nishta lucoddies: souls.
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: famine, hungy.
nix munjarlees: famines.
no flies: in truth.
nobber dacha: ninety.
nochy: night.
nylon: sckcloth, woolen.
ogle: eye.
ogle riders: eyebrows.
ogles: eyes.
omee: male.
otter dacha: eighty.
otterth: eighth.
palaver: fight.
palavered: fought.
palone: female, woman.
palone affair: wife.
palone affairs: wives.
palone chavvie: daughter.
palone chavvies: daughters.
palone servant: maidservant.
palone servants: maidservants.
palones: women.
pannan: bread, manna.
parker: give, sacrifice.
parkered: gave, given, paid.
parkerest: recompensest.
parkering: offering, reward.
parkering ninty: wages.
parkerings: offerings, rewards.
parkers: sacrifices.
parnie: weep.
parnied: wept.
parniest: weepest.
plate: foot, hoof.
plates: feet.
pogey: small.
pogier: smaller.
pogiest: smallest.
polari: tongue.
polaris: tongues.
princess: prince.
princesses: princes.
punters: congregation.
quarter: four, fourth.
quarter dacha: forty.
quarterfold: fourfold.
rattling coves: chariots.
reef: touch.
reefed: touched.
reefeth: toucheth.
reefing: touching.
reefs: touches.
riah: hairs.
roundhead: circumcised.
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: call, cry, declare, mouth, shout.
screeched: called, cried, declared.
screeches: cries, mouths.
screecheth: calleth, crieth.
screeching: crying, shouting.
screeve: write.
screeved: written, 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.
sharda: sorrow.
shardaful: sorrowful.
shardas: sorrows.
sharper: steal.
sharpered: stole.
sharpering homie: thief.
sharpering homies: thieves.
she: he.
sherry: wine.
sister: brother.
sisters: brethren.
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.
stiff: dead.
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: come, go, move, wander.
troll about: go about.
troll after: follow.
troll away: go away.
troll back to: return to.
troll by: pass by.
troll down: descend.
troll forth: go forth.
troll nishta away: go not away.
troll not: go not.
troll off: depart.
troll on: lead on.
troll out: go out.
troll over: pass over.
troll up: ascend.
trolled: came, gone, moved, went.
trolled after: followed.
trolled back: returned.
trolled back to: returned to.
trolled by: passed by.
trolled down: descended.
trolled off: departed.
trolled up: ascended.
troller: sojourner.
trollers: sojourners.
trollest: goest.
trolleth: cometh, moveth, sojourneth.
trolleth back: returneth.
trolling: coming, running.
trolling down: descending, descent.
trolling fakement: staff.
trolling lettie: tent.
trolling letties: tents.
trolling up: ascending, ascent.
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: behold, look, see, watch.
varda the lavs: read.
varda-eth: looketh.
varda-ing fakement: witness.
vardad: saw, seen, spied.
vardaest: preceivest.
vardaeth: seeth.
vardaeth the lavs: readeth.
vardaing: seeing, sight.
vardaing the lavs: reading.
vardest: seest.
wallop: dance.
walloping: dancing.
wild: anger.
zelda: witch.
zhoosh: clothes, pearls.
zhooshed: dressed.
zsa zsa: punish.
zsa zsa-ed: beat, punished.
zsa zsa-ing: punishment.
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