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   Cockney (kŏkˈny̆), n.; pl. Cockneys (-nĭz). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. æg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.]
   1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. “A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.”  Nash (1592).
   
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   This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.
   
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   2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
   
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   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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   3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney2.
   
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   Cockney, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
   
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