Cockney

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n. 伦敦东区佬, 东伦敦话, 伦敦腔 a. 伦敦人的, 东伦敦话的

发音

UK /ˈkɒk.ni/
AU

词形变化

Cockneys 复数 Cockneys

别名

Cockerney cockney

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any Londoner.

    英国 俚语
  2. 2.

    A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now generically) any working-class Londoner.

    英国
adj.
  1. 1.

    From the East End of London, or London generally.

    英国
  2. 2.

    Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.

name
  1. 1.

    The dialect or accent of such Londoners.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

British English Londoner

相关短语

Cockney rhyming slang Irish cockney Sylheti Cockney

词源

First attested in Samuel Rowland's 1600 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine as "a Bowe-bell Cockney", from Middle English cokenay (“a spoiled child; a milksop, an effeminate man”), used in the 16th c. by English country folk as a term of disparagement for city dwellers, of uncertain etymology. Possibly from Middle English cokeney (“a small, misshapen egg”), from coken (“cocks'(rooster’s)”) + ey (“egg”) or from Cockney and Cocknay, variants of Cockaigne, a mythical land of luxury (first attested in 1305) eventually used as a humorous epithet of London. Compare cocker (“to spoil a child”).

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