cockney
IPA: kˈɑkni
Root Word: Cockney
noun
- (UK slang) Any Londoner.
- (UK) A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now generically) any working-class Londoner.
- The dialect or accent of such Londoners.
- A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
- (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
- Alternative form of Cockney [(UK slang) Any Londoner.]
adjective
- (UK) From the East End of London, or London generally
- Alternative form of Cockney [(UK) From the East End of London, or London generally]
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Examples of "cockney" in Sentences
- Getting called cockney, even though I was an Essex Boy.
- Paul best not to get involved in cockney stuff as it’s so terribly lower class.
- This is of course a cockney view of what, without offence, I will term a cockney proceeding.
- The first recorded use of the word cockney was in 1521 to suggest an urban fool, a man who believed in an egg laid by a cockerel.
- I have to break a cockney's neck before I can convince him that I know the way I want things done, and they have to be done that way.
- You get bits of UK garage, Caribbean steel drums and what can only be described as cockney country rock thrown in but while the 2 Bears are clearly having a laugh, there's a genuine passion for house music there.
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