cockney
noun
cock·ney ˈkäk-nē 
plural cockneys
1
obsolete
a
: a spoiled child
b
: a squeamish woman
2
often capitalized
a
: a native of London and especially of the East End of London
b
: the dialect of London or of the East End of London
cockney adjective
cockneyfy
ˈkäk-ni-ˌfī
transitive verb cockneyish
ˈkäk-nē-ish
adjective cockneyism
ˈkäk-nē-ˌi-zəm
noun 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But the film itself proved to be one of Allen’s darkest efforts, the tale of two cockney brothers, down on their luck, who agree to commit a murder with tragic results. 
Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022 The poem isn’t diminished by learning that Vivien wrote wonderful next to the nervy wife’s dialogue in the manuscript, or that the cockney monologue at the end of the same section was modeled after the speech of the Eliots’ housemaid, Ellen Kellond. Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 Distributing tarts the traditional way, in a wicker basket carried by a theater student doing a heavy cockney accent, was deemed unsanitary by festival leadership. Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 See More
Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022 The poem isn’t diminished by learning that Vivien wrote wonderful next to the nervy wife’s dialogue in the manuscript, or that the cockney monologue at the end of the same section was modeled after the speech of the Eliots’ housemaid, Ellen Kellond. Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 Distributing tarts the traditional way, in a wicker basket carried by a theater student doing a heavy cockney accent, was deemed unsanitary by festival leadership. Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English cokeney, literally, cocks' egg, from coken (genitive plural of cok cock) + ey egg, from Old English ǣg
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a