Cockney

Definition of Cockney

Cock´ney   Pronunciation: kǒk´nŷ
n.1.An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
- Shak.
2.A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; - sometimes used contemptuously.
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
- Macaulay.
3.the distinctive dialect of a cockney{2}.
a.1.Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

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baseborn, below the salt, common, commonplace, homely, humble, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, third-estate, ungenteel, vulgar
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