Rhyming slang and toad" (the main road) and "apples and pears (stairs), as well as many more obscure examples, e.g. "Battle of the Nile" (a tile, a vulgar term for a hat), "Duke of York" (take a walk), and "Top of Rom" (home). It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals. If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community, or to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in marketplaces in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying,
Prick (slang) as fairly inoffensive. By the 20th and 21st centuries, several expressions related to prick were being used. “To look at every woman through a hole in one's prick” refers to a man who views every woman as a potential instrument of sexual pleasure. A short stout person has sometimes been described as 'short and thick like a Welshman's prick.” In Cockney rhyming slang, a penis is described as a “Hampton Wick”, a “Hampton” or a "wick" because it rhymes with 'prick'. An English proverb says "A standing prick has no conscience.". In "Pedagogical Desire: Authority, Seducation, Transference, and the Question