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Cockney


Definition:

  • (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
  • (n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
  • (a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
  • (2) Thus soaps are sacrosanct, Murderland with Robbie Coltrane is in, but Al Murray's Pub Landlord is definitely out, because it "goes down like a cup of cold sick in Scotland, a cockney landlord shouting at an audience".
  • (3) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
  • (4) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (5) It was a dish that was once as synonymous with cockney London as Chas'n'Dave, Pearly Queens and Bow Bells.
  • (6) "He's amazing, that geezer," he says, his voice betraying his Cornish roots as well as traces of cockney.
  • (7) Hepburn went on to play an annoying cockney flower girl in My Fair Lady.
  • (8) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
  • (9) For that we can thank screenwriter Barrie Keefe (“sense of history... Londoner”), who in these years was making a series of runs at the King Lear legend – here and in his plays Black Lear and King Of England – and found a clear political, historical and social context in which to strip this cockney king of everything he has.
  • (10) The film critic, who says Statham's name with an approximation of his low, gruff cockney, likes the chance the actor took with Hummingbird and also admires his 2011 film Blitz , co-starring Paddy Considine.
  • (11) The front office was run by a jovial Cockney, Charles Vidler, who had been the butler at the Astors' country house, Cliveden, until he was fired for being found in Lord Astor's bed.
  • (12) Then a voiceover began in a chirpy cockney accent – the ad’s one concession to the existence of a working class – informing viewers that “There are nearly 5 million council tenants in England and Wales, many with families like yours ... You can decide whether to turn your home into your house.” Sales started slowly.
  • (13) The following year he sold over a million records in Britain alone, with another novelty song, My Old Man's A Dustman, a re-write of a Liverpool folk tune and first world war marching song, up-dated with cockney jokes and lyrics, which topped the charts for four weeks.
  • (14) She said they even stole the lyrics for one of their songs from the Cockney Rejects.
  • (15) Less dramatic, but betraying the cheeky cockney wit which so endeared him to Newcastle fans, was Dennis Wise's response to being heckled.
  • (16) It was the sort of musically accomplished, well-arranged, album-oriented art-pop that EMI had been comfortable with since the Beatles and had pursued with Pink Floyd, Cockney Rebel and Queen.
  • (17) Albert Finney was cast as the north- country troublemaker Bamforth, but got appendicitis; he was replaced by the then unknown O'Toole, who turned the character into a cockney with no loss of plausibility.
  • (18) Another said : "He is a cockney wide-boy agent, not unlike Jonathan in many ways: a wheeler, a dealer, a ducker, a diver.
  • (19) Her debut show, Lady Cariad's Characters, features a host of memorable sorts (including a cheery cult member, a singing cockney and a seven year-old stand-up called Andrew), all realised with plenty of dexterity and featuring some sublimely funny moments along the way.
  • (20) • Report dated Thursday, May 4 1916 Edward Casey, an Irish Cockney, on his time in Ireland Walking down this small town [Kilmallock in County Limerick] with narrow streets, in uniform, with Shamas who towered over me, was an experience that still remains in my mind.

Cockneyfy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To form with the manners or character of a cockney.

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