Polari Glossary
| POLARI | TRANSLATION |
| Ajax | Nearby |
| Affair | Lover |
| Basket | The bulge of male genitals through clothes |
| Batts | Shoes |
| Bona | Good |
| Bevvy | Sup |
| Butch | Strong |
| Camp | Effeminate (originating from KAMP = Known As Male Prostitute) |
| Capello | Hat |
| Charper | Search |
| Charpering omi | Policeman |
| Chavies | Boys, children |
| Cod | Naff (see below), vile |
| Corybungus | Arse |
| Crimper | Hairdresser |
| Dinarly | Money |
| Dish | An attractive male or to confess |
| Dizzy | Scatterbrained |
| Dolly | Pretty, nice, pleasant |
| Drag | Clothes |
| Ecaf | Face |
| Eek | Face (abbreviation of ecaf) |
| Esong | Nose |
| Fakements | Personal adornments/ jewellery |
| Farting crackers | Trousers |
| Fantabulosa | Wonderful |
| Ferricadoza | Kill |
| Kaffies | Trousers |
| Khazi | Toilet |
| Lallies | Legs |
| Latty | Room, house or flat |
| Letty | Sleep |
| Leucody | Body |
| Lills | Hands |
| Lilly law | Police |
| Luppers | Fingers |
| Mangarie | Food, also jarry |
| Manky | Filthy |
| Measures | Money |
| Meese | Plain, ugly (from Yiddish) |
| Meshigener | Nutty, crazy, mental |
| Metzas | Money |
| Mince | Walk |
| Naff | Bad, drab originally an acronym of Not Available For Fucking) |
| Nanti | No |
| National handbag | Dole |
| Nishta | Nothing, no |
| Oglefakes | Glasses |
| Ogles | Eyes |
| Omi | Man |
| Omi-polone | Homosexual man |
| Onk | Nose |
| Orbs | Eyes |
| Polari | Chat, talk |
| Polone | Woman |
| Palone-omi | Lesbian |
| Pots | Teeth |
| Riah | Hair |
| Riah shusher | Hairdresser |
| Thews | Thighs |
| Trade | Sex/sexual partner |
| Troll | To walk |
| Vada | Look/see |
| Willets | Breasts |
| Zhoosh | Fix, tidy |
| Numbers | Una, duey, trey, quater, chinker, sey, setter, otto, nobber, dacha. |
