Cockney

ˈkɒk.ni

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#1·1d ago

(UK, , _, slang) Any Londoner.

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#2·1d ago

(UK) From the East End of London, or London generally.

Origin: First attested in Samuel Rowland's 1600 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine as "a Bowe-bell Cockney", from , used in the 16th c. by English country folk as a term of disparagement for city dwellers, of uncertain etymology. Possibly from , from cocks']](rooster’s) + egg or from Cockney and Cocknay, variants of Cockaigne, a mythical land of luxury (first attested in 1305) eventually used as a humorous epithet of London. Compare to spoil a child. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·1d ago

Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.

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