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- adjective
Eye dialect spelling ofcockney . - noun
Eye dialect spelling ofcockney .
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Examples
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Even worse the train I travelled down on, on Thursday morning, was full of "cockerney" rags heading back to London after the previous night.
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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
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A fair few of them cockerney sparrows trying to come over all Manky.
Archive 2007-01-14 2007
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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.
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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.
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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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