Definition: This means clueless, Scooby Doo being the rhyming slang for clue. Rank.
Often shortened to: scooby [C20: from Scooby Doo, a cartoon character on children's television] This classic piece of Scottish slang means something is brilliant, amazing, or fantastic. Careful to pay attention to the context though, we're known for a bit of sarcasm. ...
(ˌskuːbɪ ˈduː ) or scooby (ˈskuːbɪ ) noun. British rhyming slang. a clue. I don't have a scooby doo what you're talking about.
Rhyming slang is pretty kitschy these days, so it can also be a jokey, silly way to speak. For instance, people often say "I haven't a scooby," which means "I haven't a clue." "Clue" rhymes with "Scooby Doo," so when you drop the second word, a scooby is a clue.
Definition of 'scooby doo'
1. something that helps to solve a problem or unravel a mystery. 2. See not to have a clue.
Scooby-Doo's real name isn't Scoobert Doobert. It's Scoobert Doo. Scooby's full name, “Scoobert,” is revealed in the 1988 Scooby-Doo spinoff "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," which focuses on Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Freddy and Velma's adventures as children who solve mysteries.
The idea of Scooby-Doo was inspired by popular teen shows in the 1960s. Fred Silverman, who was CBS’s head of daytime programming at the time, wanted to copy the success of the Archies. His pitch was “a teenage rock band that would solve mysteries†.
Treacle = treacle tart = sweetheart.
Here, custard actually means “television”—in Cockney rhyming slang, that is! Cockney rhyming slang is a form of British slang in which a pair of words is used to replace a similar-sounding word. Often, it's the non-rhyming word in the pair that's used (you'll see what we mean).
Cockney, dialect of the English language traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. Cockney is also often used to refer to anyone from London—in particular, from its East End.
1. a lavatory [bog n. 1 ]. R.
Noun. fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies) (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia. [
Noun. dukey (plural dukeys) (obsolete, UK, slang) A penny gaff.
Dinnae teach yer Granny tae suck eggs
This phrase means that you shouldn't try to teach someone something that they already have a lot of knowledge about.
(UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav.
What is the Scottish word for friend? Charaid, or Mo Charaid for my friend, is the official answer, but colloquially the terms I have heard most seem to be chum and pal!
Sometimes "Gertie Gitana" (a music hall entertainer) was substituted for the refrain, leading to "Gertie" becoming Cockney rhyming slang for banana the usage of which continues to the modern day.
Khazi. A somewhat outdated phrase, khazi derives from the Cockney word “carsey”, meaning toilet.
Diarrhea is the spelling in American English, whereas diarrhoea is the spelling in British English. Slang terms for the condition include "the runs", "the squirts" (or "squits" in Britain) and "the trots".
an offensive word for an Irish person.
'Wig' in cockney rhyming slang. The term is probably in more common usage than the laxative from which it ...
British, informal. : a male crossing guard who carries a lollipop sign (see lollipop sense 3) Mrs Purcell said she is worried about the safety of pupils at Llangiwg Primary School which is set to lose its "much-loved" lollipop man.
Daphne is from Scotland whereas Velma is from Germany, and Shaggy and Fred are from the United States.
Scooby Doo is a Great Dane, one of the biggest dog breeds. The character was created by Iwao Takamoto, animator at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Takamoto studied the breed when developing the character, but took plenty of liberties for the fictional series.