Food & Drink Slang (non alcohol)

Drink

  • Adam’s ale – noun. water
  • brew – noun. a hot drink, usually tea
  • corporation pop – noun. water
  • cow juice – noun. milk
  • Rosie Lee – noun. rhyming slang for tea
  • splosh – noun. tea  

Food

  • barmcake – noun. a bread bun
  • banger – noun. a sausage
  • brekky – noun. breakfast
  • buttie/butty – noun. a sandwich
  • dockytime – noun. morning break
  • eating irons – noun. cutlery
  • elevenses – noun. morning break
  • gob spanners – noun. cutlery
  • grub – noun. general food
  • jockey’s whips – noun. rhyming slang for chips (French fries)
  • nosh – noun/verb
  • pig out – verb. to eat
  • sanger – noun. sandwich
  • sarnie – noun. sandwich
  • scoff – verb. to eat – noun. food
  • scran– noun. food, generally
  • slap up meal – noun. a large very good meal

Places to eat and drink

  • caff – noun. a cafe
  • chinky – noun. a Chinese takeaway (offensive)
  • chippy – noun. chip shop (a fastfood establishment)
  • greasy spoon – noun. a cheap cafe 
  • noshery – noun. a cafe or restaurant