During the 1980s, the rhyming slang expression "Barry Crocker", or simply "Barry" or "Baz", emerged in Australian English to mean a "shocker", as in "very poor".
Adding that "Barry" (slang used to describe something very good of its type) has also been borrowed from the Romani word "barri", which also means "big or great".
The shortened form of Barry Crocker, barry is rhyming slang for shocker, which is commonly used in sport to mean a bad game. Barry Crocker was the Australian popular entertainer who took the title role in the Barry McKenzie films of the 1970s.
a mistake or blunder; a disappointing performance. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. rhyming slang for shocker.
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Here in Australia, it is commonly used in sport for a bad game. Either one that has been watched or one competed in. As in, had a shocker last Saturday.
Ringer, as in dead ringer or dead ring, is a person or thing that closely resembles another. Let's hope the ringer running on for the opposition is a dead ringer for Tim Cahill and not the real player. Each week, we have a look at a slang word from Australian English.
quotations ▼ (Australian slang) A condom. synonym ▲ Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom. (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus. quotations ▼synonym ▲ Synonym: ding.
bucky (plural buckies) (Britain, slang) A gun.
Pet forms of the name are Baz and Bazza. Barry may also be a hypocorism for Bartholomew. As a given name, Barry is currently less common than it once was. It rose in popularity during the 1930s and 1940s, and was in the top 100 names through the 1970s.
a lively or boisterous person, esp a youngster.
Naturally, no Cockney is actually referring to Disney's most famous character when they say “Mickey Mouse” or shorten it to “Mickey.” In Cockney rhyming slang, this means “house”, though “Taking the Mickey” in English slang is similar to “taking the piss”, which means to mock someone or something.
Barry Crocker is Cockney slang for Shocker.
To translate the fishes-and-loaves example: a Jim Skinner is dinner, Uncle Fred is bread and Lillian Gish is, naturally enough, fish.
Contributor's comments: I have used this word and heard it used often growing up in Sydney's North to describe a Shocker! Derived from Barry Crocker - you might have had a Shocker shortened to a Barry !
Time for more Scottish slang! Today's word is "scooby." That means "clue!" As in, "I haven't got a scooby," or "I. haven't got a Scooby Doo." If you haven't got a scooby.
As detailed above, 'barry' is a noun.
It is an anglicized version of Báire which means "fair-haired." While traditionally used as a boy's name, Barry also makes a sweet choice for girls. If you feel like changing up the spelling, you can choose the alternative Barrie or shorten it to Baz.
Fanny is a girl's given name of French origin, meaning "free." It is a diminutive of the French name Estefany, meaning "crown." Fanny also derives from Frances and can be interpreted as meaning "someone from France." Fanny has a sweet ring to it and is ideal for baby, who is bound to be the crowning joy in your life!
Jerry is a given name, usually used for males. It is of Old English origin, and sometimes can be spelled Gerry, Gerrie, Geri, Jery, Jere, Jerrie, or Jeri. It is a diminutive form (hypocorism) of George, Gerald, Gerard, Geraldine, Jared, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jermaine, or Jerome.
a small cabin with a bunk or bed(s), a free-standing bedroom or sleeping area separate from the main house or cottage, which may or may not have other facilities (a fully outfitted outbuilding with a kitchen or bathroom would be a guest house and not a bunkie)
The molecule, also called "buckministerfullerene," is named after U.S. architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) because of the resemblance of the structure to the geodesic dome, which Fuller invented.
Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate. Entomology. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
darling or dear: used as a term of endearment.
A hoon is an Australian term describing a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
donk (plural donks) (Australia, slang) A car's engine. (Australia, slang) A fool. (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes. (slang) A donkey (the animal).