'Cockney' definitions:
Definition of 'cockney'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"
adjective
Relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
noun
A native of the east end of London
noun
The nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
Definition of 'Cockney'
From: GCIDE
- Cockney \Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. Cockneys (-n[i^]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. [ae]g. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.]
- 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." --Nash (1592). [1913 Webster]
- This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney[2]. [PJC]
Definition of 'Cockney'
From: GCIDE
- Cockney \Cock"ney\, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Cockney'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acadian,
- Anglo-Indian,
- average man,
- bourgeois,
- Brooklynese,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- class dialect,
- common man,
- commoner,
- dialect,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect dictionary,
- Everyman,
- French Canadian,
- Gullah,
- idiom,
- isogloss,
- John Smith,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- little fellow,
- little man,
- local dialect,
- localism,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- New England dialect,
- patois,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- pleb,
- plebeian,
- proletarian,
- provincialism,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- roturier,
- speech community,
- subdialect,
- Yankee,
- Yorkshire
Synonyms of 'cockney'
From: Moby Thesaurus