butcher's (hook) - "crook", ill, unwell; also, "look". captain - "look", from Captain James Cook, as in "Having a good captain, are ya?"
Butcher's Hook is Cockney slang for Look.
It's a straightforward rhyme with no humourous intent - Butcher's Hook simply refers to the double-ended hook with which butchers would hang up joints of meat.
Other common-if-kitschy rhyming slang words include "trouble," which means "wife" (trouble and strife = wife); "butcher's," which means "look" ("butcher's hook" = look); "dog," which means "phone" (dog and bone = phone); and "barnet," which means "hair." (Barnet fair = hair.)
Butcher's hooks are often called "esse" or "peg" by professionals. There are different sizes of esse hooks, and the larger ones have the capacity to support heavy loads.
A butcher is also a murderer, esp. of a lot of people.
Butchers' back slang originated in Smithfield Market in around 1850 and was used by the meat traders to insult each other without offending members of the public and to speak about the prices, age or quality of the meat without letting on to customers that they might be being sold something sub-par.
The Irish-, British- and Australian-English phrase I'm talking, or I'm speaking, to the butcher, not to the, or his, block is used when, while addressing someone, the speaker is interrupted by someone else—in particular when the person who interrupts is a subordinate of the person whom the speaker addresses.
Meathooks, a slang term for fists in the context of fist-fighting.
: a longshoreman's implement consisting of a metal hook with short shank and wooden handle at right angles to the shank.
A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, either freshly cut or dried as hay.
English citations of raspberry ripple
(Cockney rhyming slang) A nipple.
'Man' in cockney rhyming slang, heard almost exclusively in the phrase 'my old pot and pan', meaning one's husband ... PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com).
Kettle and hob = watch
The term means watch, which stemmed from a 'fob' watch which was a pocket watch attached to the body with a small chain. The kettle used to boil on the hob of a stove… hence the rhyme.
Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake!
Slang. to steal or seize by stealth. Informal. to catch or trick by artifice;snare. (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns. to catch hold of and draw (loops of yarn) through cloth with or as if with a hook. to make (a rug, garment, etc.)
What is butch? Traditionally, in lesbian culture, the word 'butch' refers to a woman whose gender expression and traits present as typically 'masculine'. Being butch is about playing with and challenging traditional binary male and female gender roles and expressions.
"The Irish Hook", also known in the USA as "The Hartman Hook", is a range of tools for the discerning rughooker, individually handcrafted (the hook as well as the handle) with brass hooks and ferrules, and using locally-sourced Yew wood for the handles.
The Dokers hook was used for moving bags of grain also including Coffe, maize and spices. This was used by somene called a Doker who worked on the docks. Comments are closed for this object.
The term "hook" likely goes back to the earliest days of songwriting because it refers to the part of the song intended to "hook" the listener: a catchy combination of melody, lyrics and rhythm that stays in the listener's head -- something that songwriters from the dawn of time have wanted to achieve.
Fish-hooking is the act of inserting a finger or fingers of one or both hands into the mouth, nostrils or other orifices of a person, and pulling away from the centerline of the body; in most cases with the intention of pulling, tearing, or lacerating the surrounding tissue.
The Dexter Meat Hook is 4″ with a 5/16″ diameter. It is made of stainless steel and hardened to a spring temper. These hooks are guaranteed to handle the heaviest of loads without bending, breaking or taking a set.
fit as a butcher's dog (not comparable) (chiefly Britain) Very fit; in good shape.
butcher (n.)
1300, "one who slaughters animals for market," from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frankish *bukk or some other Germanic source (see buck (n.
It means animosity in slang. If you say "I have beef with him", you mean "I have a problem with him", as in you consider that person an enemy.