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cockney

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cock·ney or Cock·ney  (kkn)
n. pl. cock·neys
1. A native of the East End of London.
2. The dialect or accent of the natives of the East End of London.
adj.
Of or relating to cockneys or their dialect.

[Middle English cokenei, cock's egg, pampered child, city dweller : coken, cock (possibly blend of cok; see cock1, and chiken, chicken; see chicken) + ei, egg (from Old English g; see awi- in Indo-European roots).]

cockney
Noun
1. a native of London, esp. of its East End
2. the urban dialect of London or its East End
Adjective
characteristic of cockneys or their dialect [Middle English cokeney cock's egg, later applied contemptuously to townsmen]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Cockney - a native of the east end of London
Londoner - a native or resident of London
2.cockney - the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
English, English language - an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
Adj.1.cockney - characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"
2.Cockney - relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
Translations

cockney [ˈkɔknɪ] nhabitante de ciertos barrios de Londres
cockney [ˈkɔknɪ] ncockney m/f (habitant des quartiers populaires de l'East End de Londres)faubourien(ne)
cockney [ˈkɔknɪ] nCockney m, echter Londoner m;
(Ling) → Cockney nt
cockney [ˈkɔknɪ] ncockney m/f inv (abitante dei quartieri popolari dell'East End di Londra)

cockney
n cockney [ˈkokni]
1 a native of the City of London. Cockney, Londenaar أحَدُ سُكّان لَنْدَن الأصْلِيين лондончанин rodilý Londýňan cockney der Cockney γνήσιος Λονδρέζος cockney, londinense (de clase popular) kokni لندنی؛ ساکن لندن cockney Cockney קוֹקנִי लन्दनिया Londončanin londoni születésű orang London kokknei, Lundúnabúi (frá East End) cockney, nativo di Londra ロンドンの下町っ子 런던 토박이 kokni koknejietis (Londonas austrumdaļas iedzīvotājs) orang cockney cockney cockney, innfødt londoner (rodowity) Londyńczyk londrino londonez кокни rodený Londýnčan Londončan kokni cockney คนพื้นเมืองลอนดอนตะวันออก Doğu Londralı; Kokney 倫敦人 кокні لندن کا مقامی شہری ، لندنی người ở khu đông Luân Đôn
2 his speech He spoke cockney; (also adjective ) a cockney accent. Londense dialek لُغَةُ سُكّان لَنْدَن кокни londýnské nářečí, londýnský cockney der Cockneydialekt λαϊκή λονδρέζικη ομιλία cockney kokni گویش کاکنی cockney cockney קוִקנִי लन्दनिया भाषा londonsko narječje „cockney” tájszólás kokknei-, Lundúna- cockney, dialetto londinese ロンドンなまりの英語 (の) 런던 사투리 kokni koknejs (Londonas austrumdaļas dialekts) loghat cockney cockney cockneydialekt, cockney- gwara londyńska londrino dialect londonez кокни londýnsky dialekt; londýnsky (prízvuk) cockney, londonsko narečje kokni cockney สำเนียง Doğu Londralı şivesi 倫敦話 кокні لندنی زبان tiếng địa phương


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A sprightly tramp promised greater difficulty, and nothing but some ferocious pantomime and a shilling persuaded him to forego a choice fantasia of cockney humour.
The elder one, Morgan, was a huge man, bronzed and moustached, with a deep bass voice and an almost guttural speech, and the other, Raff, was slight and effeminate, with nervous hands and watery, washed-out gray eyes, who spoke with a faint indefinable accent that was hauntingly reminiscent of the Cockney, and that was yet not Cockney of any brand she had ever encountered.
The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, face of the man who has absorbed the sound of Bow Bells with his mother's milk.
 
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