About The Word Cockney
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Cockney
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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. |
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