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单词 cockneyland
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Cockneylandn.

Brit. /ˈkɒknɪland/, U.S. /ˈkɑkniˌlænd/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cockney n., land n.1
Etymology: < cockney n. + land n.1, after Cockaigne n. In sense 1 probably arising from a (once widespread but probably mistaken) assumption that the words cockney n. and Cockaigne n. are etymologically related. In sense 2 with punning allusion to Cockaigne n.
1. A mythical land or imaginary place where everything is ideal; = Cockaigne n. 1. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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