Why is someone referred to as a "Right Charlie"?

Question

Why is someone referred to as a "Right Charlie"?

Answer 1

It just means, they done something daft.

Answer 2

something to do with Charles the |First I think but I am not sure what.

Answer 3

to be made to look a fool or a idiot.

Answer 4

It could be just big ears,talk like you have a plum up ya butt and definately have no taste in women ,,a right Charlie

Answer 5

Charlie Smirke was a jockey and it was cockney slang for berk.

Berk was originally short for Berkely hunt.

This is fairly commonly misquoted as charlie hunt..

I guess its humorous eastend rhyming slang..

Answer 6

i think it comes from "charlie chaplin" clumsy and daft and never doing anything right

Answer 7

i think it refers to the young pretender 'Charles Edward Stuart' and his failed attempt to ignite the Jacobean movement into full blown revolution in the 18C which died a death when the people of England didn't answer his call to arms on his march south from Scotland, overestimating the country's hatred of the new Hanoverian King George I

he was profoundly defeated by Georges son the Earl of Cumberland ( forever known as the butcher of...) at Culloden in 1746.  he died alone in Rome a drunk, wishing he had fallen at Culloden with his comrades and became a laughing stock with the English elite of the time

Answer 8

Ah, some more British slang to embarrass and befuddle the Yanks!

Right Charlie.  Noun.  An idiot. From the cockney rhyming slang Charlie Ronce, meaning 'ponce':  Example: 'You've made me look a right Charlie when you told everyone about me getting drunk last night.'

Ponce, BTW, means 1) a contemptible person. 2) An effeminate male. Derog. 3) An ostentatious male.  Derog.

Answer 9

Think about Prince Charles. Now you know what a 'right charlie' means.

Answer 10

a head the ball.a nutter.

Answer 11

I never heard that before...