Definitions

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  • adjective Eye dialect spelling of cockney.
  • noun Eye dialect spelling of cockney.

Etymologies

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Imitative of cockney pronunciation.

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Examples

  • Even worse the train I travelled down on, on Thursday morning, was full of "cockerney" rags heading back to London after the previous night.

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2009

  • Imagine how this would play if the situation were reversed; if Richard Curtis penned a snappy valentine caper in which a gamine English rose played by Keira Knightley was all set to marry an elegant, charming Sacha Distel type, but her plans were scuppered by a pwoper naughty but lovable cockerney scallywag played by Danny Dyer.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • A fair few of them cockerney sparrows trying to come over all Manky.

    Archive 2007-01-14 2007

  • There hasn't been a really good cockerney musical since the halcyon era when Dick van Dyke danced on the rooftops and sang about his old bamboo.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • There hasn't been a really good cockerney musical since the halcyon era when Dick van Dyke danced on the rooftops and sang about his old bamboo.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • ROCKNROLLA continues where SNATCH and LOCK, STOCK… left off, offering us Ritchie’s skewed, reverse-romantic depiction of Britain, heavily stylized and drastically removed from reality- I much prefer the gritty grimy Britain of Shane Meadows to the brash, balls out genuine cockerney geezerness of Ritchie’s.

    Simon wonders what a ROCKNROLLA is… | Obsessed With Film 2009

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