cockney street urchins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
cockney vowels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Getting called cockney, even though I was an Essex Boy. From Wordnik.com. [A La Recherche Du Gents Perdue] Reference
Paul best not to get involved in cockney stuff as it’s so terribly lower class. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » There will be a short break in transmission while I get back under this bus.] Reference
This is of course a cockney view of what, without offence, I will term a cockney proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Park-like it was, with a kind of cockney ruralness further endorsed by the waste papers and rifled tins of picnickers. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
He then alludes to the "cockney" improvements that had lately taken place, among which the venerable castle appears, like. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01] Reference
LANSBURY: So I did, I did this, a little cockney-like. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2004] Reference
Well, they make cockney shop-girls of PHILLIS and JOAN. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891] Reference
Melchard looked from Black Beard to the cockney, and back. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
"Then you should give 'im' arshish, sir," said the cockney. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Personally, I would back the cockney spirit against any other. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
Doreen always slipped back into cockney in moments of travail. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
And I asked him -- and he had an English accent, a cockney accent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
And here is Al as a cockney Englishman in the world of dog racing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
“That's abrilliantidea,” I say in my best cockney accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Celebrity] Reference
Fields, Hampstead Heath, or any other favourite spot which the cockney. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference
I said, it's so coincidental because I'm doing a part that is cockney. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
"We'll soon tyke that stripe off ye, me bold lad," said one big cockney. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
At the door on the landing she very nearly stepped against a little cockney. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
"I've got news for you, boss," he said, with a curious British cockney accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
The steward's name was Dalton, and he was a fair specimen of the London cockney. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
BROKAW: I saw a man who was a real British working-class guy, with a cockney accent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference
This is a standing joke at the expense of cockney credulity among the Sheffield cutlers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829] Reference
Emily did smile then, and Doreen twisted harder, her lapse into cockney enraging her further. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
A wash-hand basin -- a bit of soap -- and a coarse towel -- he thought would give a cockney on. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827] Reference
Nights we would go into Dover and sit around the "pubs" drinking ale, or "ayle" as the cockney says it. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
Perhaps we should explain for our international viewers, a porky pie is cockney rhyming slang for a lie. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2005] Reference
Does the cockney of the 'world's metropolis' compress his toes in boots tapering at an angle of forty degrees?. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Another thing: When he spoke in public he used excellent English, and the cockney dialect entirely disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Apologies to my east Ugandan friends and viewers, for the British cockney pronunciation of your region's names. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2005] Reference
The little cockney hung about a moment as for a gratuity delayed, then he disappeared down the stair before her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
It doesn't look like much and I'm afraid my rendition of cockney dialect into print isn't quite up to Kipling's. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
He was a little old man with an impertinent face, a bright eye and a strong out-of-date cockney habit of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Locals acknowledge the visible changes to London's cockney-speaking eastern frontier, home to its poorest areas. From Wordnik.com. [East London Hopes for an Olympic Revival] Reference
The voice of the little cockney, but without the accent, speaking to a Bobby standing beside the entrance reached her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Imagine the feelings of the comfortable cockney who found himself face to face with a breakfast bill for nine shillings!. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
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