Cockney

How To Use Cockney In A Sentence

• I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause. The Sun
• Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
• Why do Americans think that the English accents are either really posh or cockney?
• The writer was a cockney through and through, and the story behind his creation is a particularly novel one.
• The old fruit and veg market that once echoed with the calls of cockney costermongers is now home to gourmet burger bars and stalls selling Javanese pottery.
• In the debate, the cockney cannily picked Derek, the professional speechwriter, to be on his side.
• Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. CHAPTER L
• Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
• But it is all gone now, and the pert cockneyfied house stands up among the shrubberies and walnuts, surveying the ruins of what has been. At Large
• Most of the black and Asian blokes appeared to have Manc accents but a lot of the white blokes sounded cockney to me.