单词 | cockneyland |
释义 | Cockneylandn.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 1817 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 207 Our readers may try their skill on a few stanzas of the description of Cockney-land, which we print from Doctor Pipino's Anthology. 1819 Antijacobin Rev. & Protestant Advocate Sept. 37 If this not be the case, and it is so only in Cockney land, the effect of a continued low price of corn must be expected only some years hence. 2. London, esp. the East End, as the home of Cockneys. Cf. Cockaigne n. 2.Quot. 1820 is from a humorous poem mocking the ‘Cockney school’ of writers; see Cockney school n. at cockney n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 679 In a moment we darted..and from cockney-land parted. 1843 J. W. Carlyle Let. 9 Aug. in J. A. Froude Lett. & Memorials J. W. Carlyle (1883) I. 221 The only religious meeting I ever saw in cockneyland which had not plenty of scoffers. 2004 Daily Mail 8 Dec. 52/2 (caption) Hatched in the heart of cockney land: Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817 |
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