polari

present singular third person polaris · participle present polariing · participle present polarying · participle past polaried · past polaried

1. PolariambitransitiveTo speak or talk, particularly in slang or cant.

   Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

   1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137

alternative Palare · alternative Palari · alternative Palarie · alternative Parlare · alternative Parlary · alternative Parlyaree

1. A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the gay community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.
2. A cant used by travelling showmen in Britain.