1) British regional nickname 2) Certain Londoner 3) Cheapside native 4) English 5) English language 6) Exclusively Anglo word 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 9) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Briton 2) Inhabitant 3) Londoner
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resident of east London; more specifically, to be a true Cockney you had to be born within hearing distance of the bells of St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London. Style of speech used by a Cockney. The best known Cockney in Dickens is Samuel Pickwick's servant Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers.
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The term Cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative applied to all city-dwellers, it was eventually restricted to Londoners and particularly to the `Bow-bell Cockneys`: those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in east London`s Cheapside district. More re......
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a mocking name for London romantic poets such as John Keats and Leigh Hunt (from a scathing review in Blackwood's Magazine in October 1817).
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• (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child. • (n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously. • (a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
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Native of the City of London. According to tradition cockneys must be born within sound of
Bow Bells in Cheapside. The term cockney is also applied to the dialect of the Londoner, of which a...
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Cock'ney (kŏk'nȳ)
noun ;
plural Cockneys (- nĭz). [ Middle English
cocknay ,
cokenay , a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; probably orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; Middle English
cok cock +
nay ,
neye , for
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Cock'ney adjective Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
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Cockney is a term which was originally applied (with regard to people) to the inhabitants of any town, and implied their ignorance of farming and agriculture. During the 17th century its use became limited to the inhabitants of London, and more recently to those born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow (Bow bells) in London. The cockney...
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[
adj] - characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect 2. [adj] - relating to or resembling a cockney 3. [n] - a native of the east end of London 4. [n] - the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
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adjective relating to or resembling a cockney; `Cockney street urchins`
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