Polari (Abridged)

Polari (also 'Palare') is a British gay slang, now almost disappeared. It was more common in the 1960's when to be gay one had more need of a private slang. For an unabridged vocabulary see: Source.

B
Basket — The bulge of male genitals through clothes.
Bijou — Small.
Bona — Good.

C
Capello — Hat.
Carts/cartso — Penis
Chicken — Young boy.
Charpering Omi — Policeman.
Cottage — Public loo (particularly with reference to cottaging).
Cottaging — Having or looking for sex in a cottage.
Crimper — Hairdresser.

D
Dish — An attractive male; buttocks.
Dizzy — Scatterbrained.
Dolly — Pretty, nice, pleasant.


E
Eek — Face (abbreviation of ecaf).
Ends — Hair.

F
Fantabulosa — Wonderful.
Feele — Child.
Fruit — Queen.

G
Glossies — Magazines.

H
Handbag — Money.
Hoofer — Dancer.

L
Lilly — Police (Lilly Law).
Luppers — Fingers.

M
Mangarie — Food, also jarry
Measures — Money.
Meese — Plain, ugly (from Yiddish).
Meshigener — Nutty, crazy, mental.
Metzas — Money.
Mince — Walk (affectedly).

N
Naff — Bad, drab (from Not Available For Fucking).
Nanti — Not, no.
National handbag — Dole.
Nishta — Nothing, no.

O
Oglefakes — Glasses.
Ogles — Eyes.
Omi — Man.
Omi-polone — Effeminate man, or homosexual.
Onk —  Nose.

P
Palare Pipe — Telephone.
Park — Give.
Plate — Feet; to fellate.
Polari — Chat, talk.
Polone — Woman.
Pots — Teeth.

S
Sharpy — Policeman.
Shush Bag — Holdall.
Slap — Makeup.

T
Trade — Sex.
Troll — To walk about (esp. looking for trade).

V
Vada/varda — See.

W
Willets — Breasts.