Teeth Tales - Woohoo Thirty Two

Cherry

By GlosKat

Fri, 06 Mar 2026
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Woohoo thirty two

Shiny little snappers

Breakfast, dinner, tea and snacks

Going like the clappers.

 

Woohoo thirty two

Shiny little hampsteads

Breakfast, dinner, tea and snacks

Marmite, bread and jam spreads.

Certificate U
Poem
Humour

Comments

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

I've never heard them called Hampsteads before - it makes sense now you've said it!

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Cockney rhyme for teeth laugh

 

Submitted by GlosKat on

Thanks Claudine.  Yes it is one of the more obvious ones once you've heard it.  Unlike 'kettle' meaning a watch, which I never understood in the days when I used to watch Minder and Only Fools and Horses. Now we've got Google and we can look this sort of thing up. 

I think we've forgotten how hard it used to be to find things out before the internet came along !

 

Submitted by ScoZen on

"...Shiny little snappers.."

Your a gem GlasKat for keeping the toothy requests in the frame.

Re   . "...Shiny little snappers.."    I'm hoping,  front teeth crossed  we'll see more posts.

Enjoyed reading, and learned a new word    "...Hampsteads..."

Regards an have a nice weekend

ScoZen

Submitted by GlosKat on

Thank you !  Have a good weekend too.  

 

Submitted by Turlough on

When I was an Eastender the rhyming slang they used for teeth was Ted Heath. I first became aware of this when a West Ham United fan I had the pleasure of working with would often regale his account of the time he had all his Teds kicked in on the way to a football match in Preston. His girlfriend wanted him to get a set of false Teds but he couldn't see the point as they'd probably get kicked in too. She was obviously a lot cleverer than him because she suggested that he could just take them out and put them in his pocket whenever a gang of rival football fans came in sight. And if West Ham were playing Millwall he could just leave them at home in the bathroom cabinet.

I had such a jolly time working at the Containerbase on the Thames mud flats in Barking. It's the only time in my life that I've felt like a snob.

Turlough

Submitted by GlosKat on

Mm I can see a common theme there - Hampstead Heath / Ted Heath.

Know what you mean about Milwall.  When I was a teenager in Southampton the city centre virtually went into lockdown if Saints were playing at home to Millwall.  The ravening hordes of Gengis Khan were pussycats compared to F-Troop.

Thanks for reading - can we look forward to a toothy tale from Bulgaria ?

 

Submitted by Turlough on

There’s only a thin line between a West Ham and a Millwall supporter. West Ham are renowned for being a family club, which means that even the granny is a racist thug. Allegedly!

I’ve been thinking about teeth. I’ll think some more and do my best.

I get the Bulgarian words for teeth and tyres mixed up. Perhaps there’s a poem in that.

Turlough

Submitted by airyfairy on

Hampstead Heath makes perfect sense! My mum came from Wapping, so rhyming slang was a part of life. Eventually my parents came to live near me, in t'North, and so my kids went to school bilingual, fluent in both Yorkshire and Cockney.

Lovely competition entry. Thank you!