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cockney (plural cockneys)

1. A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.

2. (obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
   • 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:

     A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling […]

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.

• (effeminate man): nancy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man

cockney (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Cockney.

cockney

1. Alternative form of Cockney.

cockney m (plural cockneys)

1. cockney

• “cockney”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cockney m or f by sense (plural cockneys)

1. cockney (a native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London)

cockney m (uncountable)

1. cockney (English dialect of the White lower class of London)