cockney
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1. cockney - Noun
2. cockney - Adjective
3. Cockney - Proper noun
Meaning
An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
...Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.