Thesaurus: cockney

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1. n. An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
2. n. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
3. a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
4. adj. relating to or resembling a cockney
5. n. a native of the east end of London
6. adj. characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect
7. n. the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
8. 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 contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
9. j:100 n. a native of the east end of London n. the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London a. characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect a. relating to or resembling a cockney