cockney
See also: Cockney
English
Alternative forms
- Cockney
Etymology
See Cockney.
Noun
cockney (plural cockneys)
- A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
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- (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
- 1592, Nashe, Thomas, Pierce Penniless:
- A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling […]
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
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Synonyms
- (effeminate man): nancy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
Derived terms
- Irish cockney
Translations
a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London
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Adjective
cockney (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Cockney
Proper noun
cockney
- Alternative form of Cockney
French
Noun
cockney m (plural cockneys)
- cockney
Further reading
- “cockney”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
cockney m or f by sense (plural cockneys)
- cockney (a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London)
Noun
cockney m (uncountable)
- cockney (English dialect of the White lower class of London)