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English Dictionary: cockney	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cockney
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cockney adj characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels" relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins" n a native of the east end of London the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cockney \Cock"ney\ (k[ocr]k"n[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cockneys} (-n[icr]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. [91]g. See 1st {Cock}, {Egg}, n.] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. [bd]A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.[b8] --Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak. 2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cockney \Cock"ney\, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.