Word Meanings - COCKNEYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

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• 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
• COCKNEYFY
  To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
• DIALECTAL
  Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
• COCKNEYISH
  Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
• COCKNEYDOM
  The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.
• DIALECTIC; DIALECTICAL
  1. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental. 2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. Earle.
• DIALECTOR
  One skilled in dialectics.
• DIALECTIC
  See SCOTT
• DIALECTICALLY
  In a dialectical manner.
• DIALECTICS
  That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle
• COCKNEYISM
  The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
• DIALECTOLOGY
  That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck.
• DIALECTICIAN
  One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
• DIALECT
  1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region
• TRANSDIALECT
  To change or translate from one dialect into another. Bp. Warburton.
• SUBDIALECT
  A subordinate dialect.