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cockney

cockney

7 9.9
Relating to the people, accent, or dialect of East London
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɒkni/
  • UK
: cockney
  • Many actors use a cockney accent to portray characters from London's working-class neighborhoods.

Which means we might get to hear some GOP talking points and a bad Cockney accent.

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Examples

  • [ COCKNEY ACCENT ]

    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

  • [COCKNEY ACCENT]

    Big Bully (1996)

  • I that sounds like cockney or something like that.

  • Like that Cockney would like properly class voice.

  • Which means we might get to hear some GOP talking points and a bad Cockney accent.

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • He was by video link and I'm sat at the bar having a drink, talking to someone trying to do a cockney accent and some you're not cockney.

    Dodge Woodall

  • So with this one occasion, this Cockney kid who's just come on the wink right now, the cockney was the first to Skype people in prison.

  • One of the other bad guy races are trolls in Tolkien's world, and they're weird, they're funny, they speak in cockney accents.

  • His cockney accent is so strong that you can tell he's from East London.

  • She loves the unique slang that characterizes cockney speech.

Surface Forms

cockney positive

Etymology

The word cockney began as an insult for city people but later came to mean people from East London. A helpful way to remember it is that a cockney was once someone born where you could hear the Bow church 'bells', so the word now means the East London accent and style.