Chalfont St Giles

Origin of: Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles

Rhyming slang for haemorrhoids, Chalfont St Giles/piles, dates from the 1980s as in expressions like my Chalfonts are killing me. Chalfont St Giles is a village in Buckinghamshire and replaced the much older rhyming slang, Farmer Giles, which refers to the same affliction.