Cockney
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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).
[1913 Webster]
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].
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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
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