Word Meanings - COCKNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great

Additional info about word: COCKNEY

child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak. 2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

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• CHILDISHNESS
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  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
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• GREAT-HEARTED
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• YOUNG
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• CHILD STUDY
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• INGREAT
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• SMOTHER
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