Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Cockney rhyming slang hair (on one's head)
Etymologies
- Rhyming slang, from Barnet Fair. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Percy the Peacock's luxuriantly highlighted and coiffured barnet is his pride and joy.”
“I do wonder whether her barnet was a particularly cruel situationist prank.”
“As a result, many people end up protecting theirs, risking the sacred item or ritual only when they feel confident of success – and it becomes impossible to tell whether the scarlet barnet, white shoes or meal of chips and chocolate sauce "because the day I mistook it for the HP we beat Man U 3-1" is a boost to the sportsman's or woman's self‑confidence or simply a symbol of it.”
The Guardian: The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson
“That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.”
The Guardian: Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
“Oh, I could hit my head, and then for good measure, Melvyn Bragg's head too, lustrous barnet and all, against a brick wall.”
The Guardian: Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' – interview
“Frank RileyHexham, Northumberland• Now that Donald Trump has made Obama reveal his full birth certificate Report, 28 April, perhaps he could furnish evidence of the provenance of his own barnet.”
“The camera cuts to the dug-out where Sir Alex Ferguson looks most unimpressed.33 min: Sean Scannell, who boasts a similar barnet to Steven Pienaar he used to be quite a promising footballer, goes down injured after a collision with Antonio Valencia, allowing Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman to summon a few of his charges to the touchline to issue some instructions.”
“It was bad enough when he had slicked-back lustrous locks – that at least gave him the comic-villainous tinge of The Count from Sesame Street – but now he's got that six-year-old-gives-Barbie-a-haircut barnet, the fellow is positively haunting.”
The Guardian: Why Sir Alex Ferguson's rejects are tickled pink to be leaving | Harry Pearson
“LNV, I am assuming that you are highlighting the difference between a tram ROW on guildford verus barnet.”
Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog
“If you have LRT on guilford, people coming in on bus 143 and 151, among other buses have to ride the bus longer to get to station versus if it was on barnet and now they have to take a slower surface LRT.”
Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barnet’.
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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Boroughs of London
My favorite city in the entire world. Includes former as well as current boroughs (tags indicate which). I've never lived there so undoubtedly some of these are wrong; main source is Wikipedia so t...
hillingdon, harrow, barnet, enfield, haringey, waltham forest, newham, redbridge, barking and dagenham, havering, bexley, greenwich and 95 more...
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w8f's Words
chortle, shad, escapology, gonad, suspicious, brusque, shriek, panoply, vista, grizzly, gristle, grist and 48 more...
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Cockney rhyming slang
"Rhyming slang is a form of slang in which a word is replaced by a rhyming word, typically the second word of a two-word phrase (so stairs becomes "apples and pears"). The second word is then often...
Tweets
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wordwench It's additionally the site of an ancient and well known horse fair, and thus, 'Barnet' is also cockney rhyming slang for hair.
even more uselessly beguiling trivia Oct 1, 2008
chained_bear Warwick the Kingmaker was killed at the battle of Barnet in 1471. (useless fact for your perusal) (It wasn't a part of London at the time.) Oct 1, 2008