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cockney

noun

  1. dialect spoken by working class Londoners, especially in East End
L318264 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

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L335405 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: See Cockney.

  1. Alternative form of Cockney.

name

Etymology: See Cockney.

  1. Alternative form of Cockney.

noun

Etymology: See Cockney.

  1. A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.

    A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.

  2. An effeminate person; a spoilt child.

    A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…]

    This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.