Thursday 1 February 2018

Betting on The Jolly?

Tic-tac

Bottle – 2–1 

Burlington Bertie – 100–30 

Carpet – 3–1 

Century – 100–1 

Ching – 5–1 

Cockle – 10–1 

Double carpet – 33–1 

Double net – 20–1 

Double tops – 15–8 

Ear'ole – 6–4 

Elef – 11–1 

Elef a vier – 11–4 

Enin – 9–1 

Exes – 6–1 

Face – 5–2 




Handful or hand – 5–1 

Levels (you devils) – evens 

Macaroni – 25–1

Major Stevens – evens 

Net – 10–1 

Net and bice – 12/1 

Net and ex – 16/1 

Net and rouf −14/1 

Neves or nevis – 7–1 

Neves to rouf – 7/4 

Pony – 25–1 

Roof or rouf – 4–1 

Sais a wang – 6–5 

Scruffy and dirty – 100–30 

Shoulder – 7–4 

Shoulders or On the shoulders – 9–2 

Straight up – evens 

TH – 8–1 

Tips – 11–10 T

op of the head – 9–4 

Up the arm – 11–8 

Wrist – 5–4 

Xis – 6–1 

Other terms

Beeswax – tax 

Jolly – a favourite 

Kite – a cheque 

Knock – not pay up when owing 

Pony – £25 

Ton – £100 

Monkey – £500 

A bag (of sand) – £1000 

Rock cake – a small bet