gay and hearty - Cockney rhymg slang based on the rhyme wh <a href="party">party</a> , a ftive social gatherg.
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GAY AND HEARTY
* gay and hearty rhyming slang *
"Gay and hearty" (a party)Dcribg how a social get-together should be. But did you know that ckney rhymg slang is ltered wh many different ways of sayg ‘gay’? ‘Perry’ (‘Perry Como’ = ‘homo’) An irristible rhyme wh the kg of easy listeng, who died 2001.
GAY & HEARTY
Trouble and Strife = Wife Gay and Hearty = Party Cha Plate = Mate Dickery Docks = Socks Big Galoots = Boots Bag of F = Su Johnny Horner = Corner Teacher's Chalk = Walk Frog and Toad = Road T for Tat = Hat Dirty Bum = Rum El Golear = Beer Ca and… * gay and hearty rhyming slang *
It’s also slang for ‘effemate homosexual’ or ‘queen’. ‘Stoke’ (‘Stoke-on-Trent’ = ‘bent’) Acrdg to ‘The Ultimate Cockney Geezer’s Gui to Rhymg Slang’, ‘Stoke’ means ‘bent’ the sense of ‘crimal’ or ‘gay’.
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Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too. In the Victorian era, male homosexualy wasn’t jt nsired taboo – was illegal.
WHAT RHYM WH GAY?GEɪGAY
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