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Definitions for Cockney

[1] (sometimes initial capital letter ) a native or inhabitant of the East End district of London, England, traditionally, one born and reared within the sound of Bow bells.
[2] (sometimes initial capital letter ) the pronunciation or dialect of cockneys.
[3] Obsolete . a pampered child. a squeamish, affected, or effeminate person.
[4] (sometimes initial capital letter ) of or relating to cockneys or their dialect.
[5] (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
[6] the urban dialect of London or its East End
[7] Australian a young snapper fish
[8] characteristic of cockneys or their dialect of English

Words nearby Cockney

cockleert, cockler, cockles of one's heart, cockleshell, cockloft, cockney, cockney bream, cockneyfy, cockneyism, cockpit, cockroach

Origin of Cockney

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 egg1

Other words from Cockney

cock·ney·ish , adjective
cock·ney·ish·ly , adverb

Word origin for Cockney

C14: from cokeney, literally: cock's egg, later applied contemptuously to townsmen, from cokene, genitive plural of cok cock 1 + ey egg 1