Cockney

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj Cockney relating to or resembling a cockney "Cockney street urchins"
  • adj cockney characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect "cockney vowels"
  • n cockney the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
  • n Cockney a native of the east end of London
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• • Cockney 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."
  • Cockney An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney , that is his mother's darling.""This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney ."
  • a Cockney Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
  • Cockney the distinctive dialect of a cockney{2}.
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• • n cockney A spoiled child; hence, a foolish or effeminate person; a simpleton: often used as a term of reproach without a very clear signification.
  • n cockney In the following passages the meaning of the word is uncertain. It is conjectured to mean, in the first three, “a cock” or “a cook,” etc.; in the last, “a cook.”
  • n cockney A native or a permanent resident of London: used slightingly or by way of contempt, and generally with allusion to peculiarities of pronunciation or insularity or narrowness of views.
  • n cockney [capitalized] Same as Cockaigne, 2 (where see extract).
  • cockney Pertaining to or like cockneys or Londoners: as, cockney conceit; cockney speech.
  • cockney To pamper; fondle; cocker.
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• • n Cockney kok′ne (Shak.) an affected, effeminate person, knowing the manners of the town, but a stranger to what every child else knows: a townsman as opposed to a countryman: one born in London, but strictly in a particular part of London
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