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ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). The ten pound meaning of cock and hen is 20th century rhyming slang. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. Cock and hen also gave raise to the variations cockeren, cockeren and hen, hen, and the natural rhyming slang short version, cock - all meaning ten pounds.
Gen means information. If you have the gen then you know what is going on.
Bill and Ben is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.
Het is slang for heterrosexual. Het is Dorset slang for to heat. Het is Dorset slang for hot.
ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net.
Dirty Den is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.
Hen party is slang for a female social gathering, especially a pre−wedding celebration.
Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten (especially ten pounds sterling).
ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen').
Gen is slang for information, facts. Gen was old slang for a shilling.
Her is slang for cocaine.
HRN is slang for heroin.
- Gen means information. If you have the gen then you know what is going on.
Ten is American slang for a superb specimen.Ten is Jamaican slang for an attractive woman (ten out of ten).
Big Ben is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten pounds sterling. Big Ben was old London Cockney rhyming slang for ten shillings.
Hen night is slang for a female social gathering, especially a pre−wedding celebration.
Hen is Scottish slang for a woman.
Ten
Zen is slang for LSD.
Cockerel and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten.
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adv.
Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.
v. t.
To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
n.
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
adv.
While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.
a.
Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
pron. & a.
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
n.
The call of a hen to her chickens.
v. i.
To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.
n.
The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
v. i.
To live in, or as in, a den.
n.
A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
n.
The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.
v. t.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
n.
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
v. i.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
p. p.
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