cockney
noun/ˈkɒkni/
/ˈkɑːkni/
- [countable] a person from the East End of London
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- [uncountable] the way of speaking that is typical of cockneys
- a cockney accent
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a pampered child): origin uncertain; it is apparently not the same word as Middle English cokeney ‘cock's egg’, denoting a small misshapen egg (probably from cock + obsolete ey ‘egg’). A later sense was ‘a town-dweller regarded as affected or puny’, from which the current sense arose in the early 17th cent.
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