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cockney
/ˈkɒk.ni/
noun 4adj 3name 2
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4ADJ.
applied, rural, young
VERB + COCKNEY
prove, sentence, speaks, using
COCKNEY + NOUN
chas, cocksie, dave, native, slang, songsters
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
adj
1
From the East End of London, or London generally.
2
Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.
noun
1
Any Londoner.
COCKNEY, a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.
2
A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now generically) any working-class Londoner.
Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
A Cockney or Cocksie, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London.
name
1
The dialect or accent of such Londoners.
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COCKNEY, a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.
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Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
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A Cockney or Cocksie, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London.
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A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
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A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…]
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This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
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