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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
