porkpies
Flat-crowned hats
Porkpies is British rhyming slang for lies, from "pork pies" rhyming with "lies." The singular porky or plural porkies is more common: He's been telling porkies again.
The full form porkpies appears less frequently in casual speech but remains understood.
The slang has spread beyond Cockney origins into general British usage.
Deliberate untruths
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- untruthsAssertions contrary to fact
- whoppersOutlandish untruths
fabrications · tall tales · British slang · deception · stories · falsehoods · dishonesty · white lies
lies
Deliberate untruths
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- untruthsAssertions contrary to fact
whoppers · fabrications · tall tales · British slang · deception · stories · falsehoods · dishonesty · white lies · exaggeration
pastry
Buttery baked dough
cold cuts · savory · lunch · pub grub · butcher · snack · buffet · gelatin · traditional · English cuisine
trilby
Pinch-crowned felt hat
crown · Buster Keaton · 1920s · headwear · vintage · ribbon · menswear · mod · ska · retro
porkpiestruths
Accurate statements about reality
facts · gospel · straight talk · verities · candor
porkpiesfedoras
Soft felt headwear
top hats · trilbies · cowboy hats · stovepipe hats · bowlers
- porkpie hatLow-crowned creased hat