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cockney en · ADJ

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Etymology

See Cockney.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of Cockney.
   alt of Cockney

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cockney en · NOUN

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Etymology

See Cockney.

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
   • A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, 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:
2. (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
   • A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…] 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:
   • This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Forms

Deriveds

cockneyfy · cockneycality · cockneyize · Irish cockney · Jockney · cockneyess · cockneyfication

Synonyms

pansy · nancy (effeminate man) · sissy

Translations (2)

pl cockney (a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London) · pt cockney (a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London)

cockney en · PROPN

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Etymology

See Cockney.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Cockney.
   alt of Cockney

Forms