Share this. 'You're having a giraffe!' means 'You're having a laugh' or 'you must be joking'.
There is cockney slang which are sayings that rhyme with the word they are meaning to say e.g if someone says to you, "you're having a giraffe" they mean; you're having a Laugh.
Bint - (archaic) slang for woman (from the Arabic). Bird - woman, girlfriend.
Having a giraffe is a cockney expression for joking, having a laugh.
Pissed / Pished
However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk.
Other plain terms for being drunk which appear in Grose include cup shot, pogy, top heavy, flawd, groggy or grogified, corned and fuddled.
Giraffes are the world's tallest land mammal. Males (called bulls) grow up to 5,3 m and weight 1.200 kg on average.
Are you an Ambitious Arya or a Kind Kalifa – perhaps a Networked Nelia? Our girls are known as 'Giraffe Girls'. They kind, thoughtful, considerate, courageous, determined and diligent.
Just as the giraffe is a symbols of aspiration, they are also symbols of opportunity. You may feel that opportunities and lucky breaks don't come your way. The giraffe reminds you that you have to reach for them. There's a great big world out there and fortune favors the bold.
English rose
noun. an attractive English woman with an appearance traditionally thought to be typical of English women.
"Oi" has been particularly associated with working class and Cockney speech. It is effectively a local pronunciation of "hoy" (see H-dropping), an older expression. A study of the Cockney dialect in the 1950s found that whether it was being used to call attention or as a challenge depended on its tone and abruptness.
(often initial capital letters) a female volunteer in a hospital, usually wearing a pink uniform or pinafore.
Slang for a prison officer (kangaroo = screw). The word, is widely used in every prison in the country by cons.
Pineapple is Cockney slang for Chapel.
Duck and dive = hide
Ok so not quite an exact rhyme, but, as a duck would dive under the surface of the water, this phrase means something the same, as in to remove oneself from the situation and to hide.
Stereotypies in giraffes The giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, is the world's largest ruminant and is well known for its stereotyped behaviour in captivity, including tongue-playing, mane-biting and vacuum chewing (Dittrich 1976; Sato & Takagaki 1991; Veasey et al 1996).
"I would choose to be a giraffe, and here is why: First, giraffes have beautiful, glowing fur. Likewise, professional salespeople are well dressed and groomed, making for an excellent first impression when meeting clients. Giraffes are elegant and graceful as they run, plus they move at very high speeds.
Giraffes are graceful, well-groomed individuals moving through life with the confidence and elegance that only big game animals exhibit. Michael Jordan is a typical giraffe; Tall, good-looking, and successful, he stands heads and shoulders above the rest of the animal kingdom.
After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling. In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males.
Courtship and mating
The male signals his readiness to mate by tapping on the female's hind leg with his foreleg or resting his chin on her back. He usually follows her, sometimes for hours, until she allows him to mount her. No long term bonds seem to form between the male and female.
Do giraffes mate for life? No, males and females usually associate with each other in loose social groups. When she is receptive, the female will allow a particular male to mate with her.
Scottish slang for drunk…
Blootered, Steamin', Wrecked, Bladdered, Hammered, Sloshed and Smashed to name just a few of the more regular sounding ones. 'Ooot yer tree', 'Steamboated', 'Mad wae it' and 'Ooot the game' being some of the stranger sounding phrases!