(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.
Dialect
Definition:
(n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
(n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Historical reality suggests the concept of socially necessary risk determined through the dialectic process in democracy.
(2) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
(3) This study investigated whether Nonstandard English (NSE) dialect responses to an examiner-constructed sentence completion test were congruent with and predictive of use of NSE during spontaneous conversation.
(4) We conclude that no major dialect differences exist in peptic ulcer frequency amongst the Chinese in Singapore.
(5) The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance.
(6) Discussion of a revised model of Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development illustrates the importance of formulating a dialectical developmental model that describes the interaction between attachment and separation and between product and process.
(7) Strong individual differences and learned local dialects are common.
(8) The Freudian conception of the process by which the subject is constituted is fundamentally dialectical in nature and involves the notion that the subject is created and sustained (and at the same time decentred from itself) through the dialectical interplay of consciousness and unconsciousness.
(9) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(10) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
(11) For example such problems are discussed: the dialectic association of activity and inactivity of needing care old age people, the relation between energy and personality of old age people, change of relations between doctor-nurse-citizen or the higher responsibility of the doctor of the houses for old age people in connection with so-called "Triage".
(12) A dialectical model is proposed in which BSG utilization rates are seen as the product of an avoidance-avoidance conflict involving the choice between suffering emotional distress on one's own or the perceived stigma of joining a BSG.
(13) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
(14) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
(15) Starting from these statements, the author considers the hereditary and the environmental factors as a dialectical unit, associates the implications of both groups of factors with typical forms of dysgnathias and draws conclusions as to the prognosis of "mainly genetically" and "mainly environmentally" induced dental and occlusal malpositions.
(16) Cantonese is the common Chinese dialect spoken by the citizens in Hong Kong.
(17) The name of these drugs, Chin-I, dialectal Kim-Iya, was Arabicized as Kimiya and transliterated Chemeia by the Copts.
(18) The data, failing to produce evidence for an "undershoot" mechanism, support the view that dialect-specific correlates of stress are actively safeguarded by means of articulatory reorganization.
(19) Postmortem findings will continue to be a valid basis on which medical specialists can train their own medical thinking and can learn about the dialectics of pathological processes.
(20) The clustering in the present song, however, may also be due to a tendency for a mid vowel to be realized as a higher-beginning diphthong, which is characteristic of the North-Estonian coastal dialect area where the singers come from.