Below is a summary of Polari words with their meaning This list is by no means complete

Basket or Packet............The bulge in a mans jeans Betty bracelet...............Policewoman Bijou..........................Small Bod............................Body Bold...........................Daring Bona..........................Good, Nice Buns..........................Ass cheeks Butch.........................Masculine Camp.........................Effeminate Capello........................Hat Carsey........................Toilet Chicken........................Young man Charper.......................To Search Charpering omi................Policeman Cottage.......................Public Toilet Cottaging.....................Looking for sex in a cottage Crimper.......................Hairdresser Dish ..........................Nice looking man, Nice arse Dizzy..........................Scatty Dolly...........................Pretty Drag...........................Women's clothes Eek ...........................Face (Backslang ecaf) Esong..........................Nose Fantabulosa ..................Wonderful Fruit...........................Old queen Gay............................Good as you Gelt............................Money Glossies........................Magazines Hoofer.........................Dancer Kaffies........................Trousers Lallies..........................Legs Latty...........................House Lills............................Hands lilly Law........................Police Luppers........................Fingers Mangarie.......................Food Mince...........................A camp walk Naff ...........................Awfull ( Not Available For F--king) Nanti...........................None, no National handbag .............Dole money Oglefakes......................Glasses Ogles.......................... Eyes Omi.............................Man Omipolone......................Camp man Palliass.........................Back or rear Polari...........................Talk , to chat Polone...........................Woman Pots,...........................Teeth Riah............................Hair Riah shusher...................Hairdresser Shush bag.....................Bag or Holdall Slap..............................Makeup Thews..........................Thighs Trade...........................Sex Troll .............................To go walking Varda...........................See, To look

 

I will add to this list and put more on here about my life in Gay Nottingham as I get the time