| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cock•ney /ˈkɑkni/USA pronunciation n., pl. -neys. - Language Varieties[countable* sometimes: Cockney] an inhabitant of the East End district of London, England.
- Language Varieties[uncountable* sometimes: Cockney] the speech of this population.
cock•ney, cock•ney•ish, adj.: a cockney accent. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cock•ney (kok′nē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -neys, adj. n. - Language Varieties(sometimes cap.) a native or inhabitant of the East End district of London, England, traditionally, one born and reared within the sound of Bow bells.
- Language Varieties(sometimes cap.) the pronunciation or dialect of cockneys.
- [Obs.]
- a pampered child.
- a squeamish, affected, or effeminate person.
adj. - Language Varieties(sometimes cap.) of or pertaining to cockneys or their dialect.
- 1325–75; Middle English cokeney foolish person, literally, cock's egg (i.e., malformed egg), equivalent. to coken, genitive plural of cok cock1 + ey, Old English æg; cognate with German Ei, Old Norse egg egg
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cockney /ˈkɒknɪ/ n - (often capital) a native of London, esp of the working class born in the East End, speaking a characteristic dialect of English. Traditionally defined as someone born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church
- the urban dialect of London or its East End
adj - characteristic of cockneys or their dialect of English
Etymology: 14th Century: from cokeney, literally: cock's egg, later applied contemptuously to townsmen, from cokene, genitive plural of cok cock1 + ey egg1ˈcockneyish adj |