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cockney::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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cockney::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | english, english language |
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cockney vowels.
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Examples of cockney
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He's like Danny Dyer except he uses his cockney powers for good instead of evil.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is there any way of stemming the flow of post-Guy Ritchie cockney crime comedies?
From the independent.co.uk
One of them, the cocky cockney Fred, takes up with Pam and a baby soon arrives.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Her comic cockney banter and warbling both comments on and enlivens the action.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Turner was a defiantly self-made cockney, born above a barber's shop in Maiden Lane.
From the telegraph.co.uk
When Wood took over the job, he began using a slang, rhyming cockney accent.
From the chron.com
The 1913 comedy tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl.
From the bloomberg.com
Any cockney character like me was humorous, villainous or not very bright.
From the ocregister.com
He's joined by comedy actress Rebecca Front and irrepressible cockney Micky Flanagan.
From the metro.co.uk
- A native of the east end of London
- Characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"
- Relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
- The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End. Linguistically, it refers to the form of English spoken by this group.
- Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language, and is especially prevalent in dialectal British English from the East End of London which also gives it the name Cockney rhyming slang. ...
- 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. ...
- N. 1. Anyone born within hearing distance of the Bow bells in London (the East end). 2. Cockney rhyming slang has wide use throughout England. It is an active language that is continually growing (several dictionaries are available). ...
- Drop leading H, e.g. get to know, Cockney says = EAR (HEAR without H)
