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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cockney \Cock"ney\, a. Of or relating to or like cockneys. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak. 2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Cockney adj 1: characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "Cockney vowels" [syn: {Cockney}] 2: relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins" [syn: {Cockney}] n 1: a native of the east end of London [syn: {Cockney}] 2: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the E end of London
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