Crossword clues for cockneys
cockneys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockney \Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. Cockneys (-n[i^]z). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. [ae]g. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.]
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An effeminate person; a spoilt child. ``A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.''
--Nash (1592).This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
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A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
--Macaulay. the distinctive dialect of a cockney[2].
Wiktionary
n. (plural of Cockney English)
Usage examples of "cockneys".
For, though it was his whim to dine in his rooms alone, and though he had no fixed plans for the evening, Lanyard was too thoroughly cosmopolitan not to do in Cockaigne as the Cockneys do.
The Cockneys would be especially quaint, because they were so quick-witted, and so full of independence and courage.
Then these cockneys, instead of starting at an easy pace, as a gentleman would do, generally set off at full speed from the very stable-yard.
Dominated by poor cockneys, it was increasingly populated by immigrants straight off the docks, particularly Eastern European Jews escaping persecution and pogroms, with their strange languages, insular customs, and wariness of gentiles.
And when she passes with the dreadful boys And romping girls, the cockneys loud and crude, My thought, to the Minories tied yet moved to range The Land o' the Sun, commingles with the noise Of magian drums and scents of sandalwood A touch Sidonian--modern--taking--strange!