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Definition of Cockney

1. Noun. A native of the east end of London.

2. Adjective. Characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect. "Cockney vowels"

3. Noun. The nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London.

4. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a cockney. "Cockney street urchins"

Definition of Cockney

1. n. An effeminate person; a spoilt child.

2. a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

Definition of Cockney

1. Adjective. From the East End of London. ¹

2. Proper noun. Any native of London who was born within the sound of ''Bow Bells'', ''St Mary-le-Bow'' church Cheapside, in the City of London. ¹

3. Proper noun. The dialect or accent of such natives. ¹

4. Noun. a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London ¹

5. Noun. the accent and speech mannerisms of these people ¹

6. Adjective. of, or relating to these people or their accent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cockney

1. a resident of the East End of London [n -NEYS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockney

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cockmatches cockmunch cockmuncher cockmunchers cockmunches cockney (current term) cockneycality cockneyfication cockneyfications cockneyfied

cockneyfies cockneyfy cockneyfying cockneyish cockneyism cockneyisms cockneys cocknify cockpit cockpit recorder

Literary usage of Cockney

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1821)
"It has saved them an expenditure, disproportionate to their means, in argument and wit : they have written cockney against a writer, when they have been ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"Why is it that they seem to think the world has no right to hear one single word about any other persons than Hunt, the cockney Homer, Hazlitt, the cockney ..."

3. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller (1910)
"CHAPTER V Characteristics of the " cockney School"—Reasons for Tory enmity— Establishment of Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review—Their methods of ..."

4. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"The LONDONER or cockney pronounces w for v, and ;; for w ; weal for veal; ... of w and v is the most offensive peculiarity of the cockney dialect. ..."

5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"CHAPTER IX ADVENTURERS AFLOAT AND ASHORE 1. cockney ... charm of Scott's novels, the matter-of-fact found delight in the cockney sketches of Pierce Egan. ..."

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