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Did she actually just screech that? the bijou bitch!
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name =Polari
other names =Palare, Parlary, Palarie, Palari, Parlyaree
ajax =nearby (from adjacent?)
aunt nell =listen, hear
aunt nells =ears
aunt nelly fakes =earrings
balonie =rubbish
basket =the bulge of male genitals through clothes
batts =shoes
bevvy =drink
bitch =effeminate or passive gay man
bijou =small/little
blag =pick up
bod =body
bold =daring
bona¬ =good
bona nochy =goodnight
bonaroo =wonderful, excellent
bungery =pub
butch =masculine; masculine lesbian
buvare =a drink
cackle =talk/gossip
camp =effeminate
capello/capella =hat
carsey =toilet, also spelt khazi
carts/cartso =penis
charper =to search
charpering omi =policeman
chaver =to shag/a shag (sexual intercourse)
chicken =young boy
clobber =clothes
cod =naff, vile
cottage =public loo (particularly with reference to cottaging)
cottaging =having or looking for sex in the above cottage
cove =friend
crimper =hairdresser
dinarly =money
dish =butt(ocks)
dog and bone =telephone
dolly =pretty, nice, pleasant
dona =woman
drag =clothes, esp. women's clothes
ecaf =face (backslang)
eek =face (abbreviation of ecaf)
ends =hair
esong =nose (backslang)
fantabulosa =fabulous/wonderful
feele/freely/filly =child/young
fruit =queen
funt =pound
gelt =money
glossies =magazines
handbag =money
hoofer =dancer
HP (homy polone) =effeminate gay man
jarry =food, also mangarie
jubes =breasts
kaffies =trousers
khazi =toilet, also spelt carsey
lacoddy =body
lallies =legs
latty/lattie =room, house or flat
lett =to sleep, rest
lettie =sleep, rest
lills =hands
lilly =police (Lilly Law)
lyles =legs
lucoddy =body
luppers =fingers
mangarie =food, also jarry
martinis =hands
measures =money
meese =plain, ugly (from Yiddish)
meshigener =nutty, crazy, mental
metzas =money
mince =walk (affectedly)
naff =awful, dull, hetero
nanti =not, no, none
national handbag =dole, welfare, government financial assistance
nishta =nothing, no
ogle =look, admire
oglefakes =glasses
ogles =eyes
omi =man
omi-polone =effeminate man, or homosexual
onk =nose
orbs =eyes
palare pipe =telephone
palliass =back
park =give
plate =feet; to fellate
palone =woman
palone-omi =lesbian
pots =teeth
remould =sex change
riah/riha =hair (backslang)
riah zhoosher =hairdresser
scarper =to run off (from Italian scappare, to escape)
schlumph =drink
scotch =leg (scotch egg=leg)
screech =mouth, speak
sharpy =policeman
sharpy polone =policewoman
shush =steal (from client)
shush bag =hold-all
shyker/shyckle =wig
slap =makeup
so =homosexual (e.g. "Is he 'so'?")
stimps =legs
stimpcovers =stockings, hosiery
strides =trousers
strillers =piano
switch =wig
thews =thighs
tober =road
todd (Sloanne) =alone
tootsie trade =sex between two passive homosexuals (as in: 'I don't do tootsie trade')
trade =sex
troll =to walk about (esp. looking for trade)
vada/varder =to see
I vada =I see
you vada =you see
he/she(rare)/it =he/she(rare)/it sees
vadas
we vada =we see
they vada =they see
I will vada =(future)
I vadered =(perfect)
I was vadering =(imperfect)
had vadered =(pluperfect)
vera (lynn) =gin
vogue =cigarette
vogueress =woman smoker
willets =breasts
yews =eyes
zhoosh¬ =style hair, tart up, mince
zhoosh our riah =style our hair
zhooshy =showy

for those people who never knew what Polari is, it´s an "argot" - a kind of slang, or anti-language - used mainly by queer people up until the onset of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s. rumour is that it´s making a comeback very slowly in gayland, so I thought I´d give people a bit of a looksee at Polari!

...parkering back a piece of sparkley omipalone dollyness to the nanty dinarly...

don´t forget to parker the Polari Bible a bit of a varda...

Polari Bible from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

splasha
xxx

-- Edited by chemicalfears at 16:02, 2006-06-14

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