cockney
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Is cockney a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (UK) From the East End of London, or London generally.UKnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (UK slang) Any Londoner.Examples: "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."UKslang
2. (UK) A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now generically) any working-class Londoner.Examples: "Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys."; "A Cockney or Cocksie, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London."; "“Charming place, ma’am,” said he, bowing to the widow; “noble prospect—delightful to us Cocknies, who seldom see anything but Pall Mall.”"UK
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.Examples: "A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…]"; "This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney."Synonyms: nancyobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary