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Cockney

Cockney Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cockney? [n] the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London [n] a native of the east end of London [adj] relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins" [adj] characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cockney: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cockney: Acadian \| Anglo-Indian \| average man \| baseborn \| below the salt \| bourgeois \| Brooklynese \| bundle of isoglosses \| Cajun \| Canadian French \| class dialect \| common \| common man \| commoner \| commonplace \| dialect \| dialect atlas \| dialect dictionary \| Everyman \| French Canadian \| Gullah \| homely \| humble \| idiom \| isogloss \| John Smith \| linguistic atlas \| linguistic community \| linguistic island \| little fellow \| little man \| local dialect \| localism \| low \| lowborn \| lowbred \| lowly \| mean \| Midland \| Midland dialect \| New England dialect \| nonclerical \| ordinary \| patois \| Pennsylvania Dutch \| plain \| pleb \| plebeian \| proletarian \| provincialism \| regional accent \| regionalism \| roturier \| rude \| shabby-genteel \| speech community \| subdialect \| third-estate \| ungenteel \| vulgar \| Yankee \| Yorkshire See Also \| English \| English language \| Londoner Cockney In Webster's Dictionary \Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. {Cockneys} (-n[i^]z). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. {Newt}), AS. [ae]g. See 1st {Cock}, {Egg}, n.] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. ``A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.'' --Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak. 2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay. \Cock"ney\, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

Cockney Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cockney?

[n] the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
[n] a native of the east end of London
[adj] relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
[adj] characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"

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Cockney In Webster's Dictionary

\Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. {Cockneys} (-n[i^]z).
[OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an
egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok
cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. {Newt}), AS. [ae]g. See 1st
{Cock}, {Egg}, n.]
1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. ``A young heir or
   cockney, that is his mother's darling.'' --Nash (1592).

         This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
                                               --Shak.

2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used
   contemptuously.

         A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much
         as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
                                               --Macaulay.


\Cock"ney\, a.
Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

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