Results for “Barnet Fair”

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Barnet Fair
noun

Cockney for hair — 'Barnet Fair' rhymes with hair, clipped to your 'Barnet'.

#cockney#rhyming#british#uk
Barnet
noun

Hair — cockney rhyming slang from Barnet Fair = hair.

#cockney#rhyming#uk#british
fair dinkum
adjective

Genuine, true, honest.

#australian#aussie#idiom#truth
fairy bread
noun

Buttered white bread covered in sprinkles.

#australian#aussie#food#children
fair go
phrase

A fair chance; a plea for fairness.

#australian#aussie#idiom#values
fair crack of the whip
phrase

A fair chance or fair treatment.

#australian#aussie#idiom#fairness
fair suck of the sav
phrase

Come on; be fair.

#australian#aussie#idiom#fairness
fairy floss
noun

Candy floss / cotton candy.

#australian#aussie#food#sweets
fair catch
noun

Catching a kick unhindered after signaling for no return.

#sports#special teams#rules
ending fairy
noun

The member who poses to camera at a performance's end.

#kpop#stan#fandom#performance
fair one
noun

A one-on-one fight with no weapons and no interference.

#prison#criminal#violence#conflict
forfairn
adjective

Worn out, exhausted or forlorn

#scottish#irish#tired#forlorn
fair play
phrase

'Well done / good on you'

#scottish#irish#praise#approval
shoot the fair
phrase

Let's fight one-on-one, fairly

#american#regional#fight#challenge
arl arse
adjective

Being mean, sly, or unfairly harsh — a proper miserable so-and-so.

#scouse#liverpool#insult#british
liberty
noun

Something outrageously unfair. A piss-take.

#geordie#north-east#british#complaint
chwarae teg
phrase

Fair play — to be fair, credit where it's due.

#welsh#wales#language#phrase
make dodo
phrase

To go to sleep, from Cajun French 'faire dodo.'

#nola#cajun#southern#french
stink
adjective

Bad, unfair or disappointing

#australian#aussie#negative#disappointment
fuckery 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#caribbean#patois#expression#feeling
square go
noun

A fair, one-on-one fight

#scottish#irish#fight#challenge
wheen
noun

A fair number; quite a few

#scottish#irish#quantity#measure
shan
adjective

A shame; unfair or bad.

#scottish#irish#descriptor#scots
canny few
phrase

Quite a lot / a fair number

#british#regional#phrase#quantity
shuggy boat
noun

A fairground swing-boat ride

#british#regional#noun#leisure
hoppings
noun

A fair or funfair

#british#regional#noun#leisure
middlin
adjective

So-so; neither good nor bad ('fair to middling').

#british#regional#state#adjective
Nwanyi Ocha
noun

Literally 'white/fair woman' — a descriptive nickname for a light-skinned or white woman.

#igbo#igbo-slang#nigerian#west-african
Cut Whids
phrase

To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
On The Level
phrase

Honest, fair, and on the up-and-up, no tricks, no double-dealing.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Cracked
adjective

Insanely good at a game — playing at a level that seems almost unfair.

#gen-z#fps#fortnite#compliment
Canny
adjective

Geordie/Scottish for nice, good, or — as an adverb — 'quite' / 'fairly'.

#british#uk#scottish#northern-english
Make It Make Sense
phrase

A rhetorical 'explain this' aimed at something illogical or unfair.

#aave#american#gen-z#meme
ELI5-Adjacent
phrase

Not quite ELI5, but a request for a fairly simple, low-jargon rundown.

#acronym#internet#meme
TBF
phrase

To Be Fair — adding a balanced or sympathetic point to a take.

#acronym#internet#texting#british