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Cockney - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Cockney : adj
1: characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney
vowels"
2: relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street
urchins" [syn: Cockney]
(noun)
1: a native of the east end of London [syn: Cockney]
2: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cockney : \Cock"ney\, a.
Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cockney : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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