Definitions
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- noun uncountable An
inauthentic imitation ofCockney accent andvocabulary . - noun countable A person who speaks in this way.
- adjective Characteristic of a mockney.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
The Seattle Times 2010
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
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(Talking football, he lapses into Tony Blair-style "mockney" English, I notice.)
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Jimmy (Matthew Horne) and Fletch (James Corden), the protagonists of LVK, are presented as a kind of mockney WITHNAIL AND I pair, ordinary city boys confronted by surreal circumstances whilst on holiday in the countryside.
Alex compares LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS to a horror version of a cheap lads mag! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal.
Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009
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There's the embarrassing 'mockney' accent (not shared by brother Ed).
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