cockney

See also: Cockney

English

Alternative forms

• Cockney

Etymology

See Cockney.

Noun

cockney (plural cockneys)

1. 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, volumes (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.

2. (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
   • 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:

     A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling […]

   • 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.

Synonyms

• (effeminate man): nancy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man

Derived terms

• Irish cockney

Translations

a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London

• Portuguese: cockney (pt) m or f

Adjective

cockney (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Cockney

Proper noun

cockney

1. Alternative form of Cockney

French

Noun

cockney m (plural cockneys)

1. cockney

Further reading

• “cockney”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ki.ni/, /ˈkɔk.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ki.ni/, /ˈkɔk.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔk.ni/, /ˈkɔ.ki.ni/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.kni/

Noun

cockney m or f by sense (plural cockneys)

1. cockney (a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London)

Noun

cockney m (uncountable)

1. cockney (English dialect of the White lower class of London)