Definitions by mac-gyver

do-mes

Womens' high heeled shoes or boots, from the fact that they advertise that the wearer is looking for someone to 'do her' ('do me')

The skeezer wore daisies and do-mes to her junior high graduation.

do-mes by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

rhyming slang 

1) The use of a rhyming word in the place of the original word to obscure the meaning.
2)The chaotic blur that is the soul of the Cockney dialect.

"Take a butcher's" (butcher's hook = look)
Daisies (shoes) (daisy roots = boots).
"She's a pretty twist" (twist and twirl = girl)
"He's ginger" (ginger beer = queer / homosexual. Derogatory unless uttered by fellow travellers)
"I took the lift to the apples"(apples and pears = upstairs, though not even pensioners use that phrase anymore)

rhyming slang by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

hedge 

Cockney slang for the border of something.

""E's gawn orf the 'hedge of the roof!"

hedge by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

sotto voce 

From the Italian, meaning 'low voice'. To speak quietly out of the corner of your mouth so that the subject of your speech can't hear your insult or know that you are speaking.

"Oh, what a beautiful creature your daughter is", said Mrs. Mulroy saccarinely to Mrs. Katz at the Bat-mitzvah.
"Too bad the zoo can't identify what kind of creature she is", Mrs. Jackson said sotto voce to Mrs. Mulroy as they plastered wide smiles on their faces.

sotto voce by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Flash 

British slang for fancy or expensive-looking.

"That's a flash fawney ya got mate. It'd be a shame if I ha' tae break yer finger af tae get it."

Flash by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

smoke 

A military slang term for artillery. To 'bring smoke' = order an artillery strike. 'Chief of Smoke' = senior sergeant in an artillery unit.

The FO read the coordinates carefully into the radio's handset. Bringing smoke was a difficult job; one wrong syllable and a shell could land among the friendlies.

smoke by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

fawney 

Slang for a ring. Derived from the feudal ritual in which supplicants and inferiors would kiss a lord's ring when 'fawning' or 'kissing up' to him.

"That's a flash fawney, Jimmy. It would be a shame ef I had tae break the finger af to get it. Now 'and it over like a good chap and ye'll come to no 'arm."

fawney by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003