cockney
see also: Cockney
Etymology
Cockney
Etymology
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see also: Cockney
Etymology
See Cockney.
Nouncockney (plural cockneys)
- A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, 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 ↗:
- A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
- (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
- 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]:
- This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
- (effeminate man) nancy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
- Portuguese: cockney
cockney (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Cockney
- Alternative form of Cockney
Cockney
Etymology
First attested in Samuel Rowland's 1600 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine as "a Bowe-bell Cockney", from Middle English cokenay, used in the 16th c.
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /ˈkɒk.ni/
cockney (not comparable)
- (UK) From the East End of London, or London generally.
- Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style, traditionally known for its rhyming slang.
cockney (plural cockneys)
- (UK, slang) Any Londoner.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words, section 22 ↗:
- COCKNEY, a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.
- (UK) A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now, generically) any working-class Londoner.
- 1617, Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary:
- Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
- 1617, John Minsheu, Ductor in Linguas:
- A Cockney or Cocksie, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC ↗:
- “Charming place, ma’am,” said he, bowing to the widow; “noble prospect—delightful to us Cocknies, who seldom see anything but Pall Mall.”
- 2000 December 18, BBC and Bafta Tribute to Michael Caine, 16:43-17:05:
- Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer.
Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.
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