Cockney

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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).
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              This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one
        living in the East End district; -- sometimes used
        contemptuously.
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              A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much
              as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney[2].
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cockney \Cock"ney\, a.
     Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cockney
       adj 1: characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney
              vowels"
       2: relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street
          urchins"
       n 1: a native of the east end of London
       2: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "Cockney":
     Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French,
     Everyman, French Canadian, Gullah, John Smith, Midland,
     Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee,
     Yorkshire, average man, bourgeois, bundle of isoglosses,
     class dialect, common man, commoner, dialect, dialect atlas,
     dialect dictionary, idiom, isogloss, linguistic atlas,
     linguistic community, linguistic island, little fellow, little man,
     local dialect, localism, patois, pleb, plebeian, proletarian,
     provincialism, regional accent, regionalism, roturier,
     speech community, subdialect
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "cockney":
     baseborn, below the salt, common, commonplace, homely, humble, low,
     lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain,
     plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, third-estate, ungenteel, vulgar