How To Use Cockney In A Sentence
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I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause.
The Sun
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Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
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Why do Americans think that the English accents are either really posh or cockney?
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The writer was a cockney through and through, and the story behind his creation is a particularly novel one.
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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.
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In the debate, the cockney cannily picked Derek, the professional speechwriter, to be on his side.
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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
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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
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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
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Most of the black and Asian blokes appeared to have Manc accents but a lot of the white blokes sounded cockney to me.
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As long ago as 1952, he was "sent around the metropolis" to discover whether, in fact, any Cockney dialect remained (a famous dialectologist wrongly doubted this).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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Over at Becks & Posh cockney for "nosh" there's a great photo spread of the The Halloween Mission Taco Crawl 2004 which reminds me of everything I love about being a touch crazy about food.
Archive 2004-11-01
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This is usually cited as evidence of British fortitude - the attitude exemplified by cockneys in the heavily bombed East End who told Winston Churchill, ‘We can take it, but give it 'em back.’
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The audience can enjoy old time favourites with selections from music hall classics, musicals, cockney sing-a-longs and the songs that won the war.
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You won't hear much real Cockney spoken unless you go to the East End.
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Forget the trouble and strife (and I know what that's a cockneyism for!) forget the chores and the deadlines, forget that the nose is at the grindstone!
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a son, even "if he had been a _cockney dandiprat_" (1582).
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Revels, it is ordered that the King of Cockneys, on Childermas Day, should sit and have due service, and "that Jack Straw, and all his adherents, should be thenceforth utterly banished, and no more to be used in this house, upon pain to forfeit for every time five pounds, to be levied on every fellow hapning to offend against this rule.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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London ones, though by no means so abominable even, one's company here being mainly God's sky and earth, not cockneydom with its slums, enchanted aperies and infernalries.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Brydon's Caine is actually the more substantial one, starting with his high-pitched Cockney voice of the 1960s and following it down the vocal register to his deeper, more rumbly sound of the 21st century.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Trip
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Some say that Cockney was also used by small-time criminals to confuse the police.
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It's the composer's musical valentine to London, the city of cockneys and kings.
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Against the odds I seem, in the words of that Cockney amorist, to be ‘some 'ow still about’.
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English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine!
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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The attacker was described as 30 years old with short dark hair, slight build and a Cockney accent.
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You'll find the nouveau hippie existentialism, the cockney laced rap and a handful of funk-fuelled fun.
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If ever been where bells have knolled to church"; if you have ever been within sound of Bow bells; if you have ever been happy and haughty enough to call yourself a Cockney.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
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He has a quavering, affected English accent, which the actor perhaps imagines to be that of a cheeky cockney.
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Why is the valorization of a contingency beyond necessity, as we'll see Agamben defining it, not routed back through the heightened literary convolutions of "phonetic spelling" after all, in instances more ambitious and self-searching than that of Stoker's Cockney botcher?
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney character; English country character is quite as faithfully delineated in the person of the stout porteress and her children, and of the
George Cruikshank
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English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian.
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My personality contains many ancestral traits, though now expressed in a cockney accent: I am gobby and sentimental.
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Step back another half-century and you find a different scene: a highly transient place inhabited by up to 150,000 Jewish immigrants, with poverty rife among cockneys.
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She read for the part in a sort of aggressive cockney, but she had something special.
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Sharp featured, with a Cockney accent and a biting wit, Mr Bowles was a gifted teacher.
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I know this because I heard the voice of a cockney sparrer arguing on the phone yesterday when I came in from work.
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He habitually wore shabby tweeds and a cloth cap of the kind favoured by Cockney barrow boys, also by country squires.
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Bob Hoskins sheds his Cockney vowels for a Received Pronounciation accent and plays a white version of the butler in a popular comedy - highly deferent, highly different.
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Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back.
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He only offers that ‘dogs’ are US slang for feet, which doesn't help much as this is clearly a cockneyism.
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Speaking with a Dickensian cockney brogue is pushing things a bit.
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Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege!
Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
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Cockney street urchins
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If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal.
Speaking in Tongues
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One Hiram Codd did 'invent' a cold refreshing drink which it is claimed was called codswallop and since the Cockney slang for a glass of beer is a glass of wallop, maybe this is its etymological origin.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He developed a cockney accent so that he would fit in better with his workmates.
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Quote Mr. Henry James about "the blistered _sentiers_ of asphalt, the rock-bound caverns, the huge iron bridges spanning little muddy lakes, the whole, crowded, cockneyfied place.
Fifth Avenue
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He spoke with a cockney accent and dropped his aitches .
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That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Spike your hair out with some holding product and work on your cockney accent.
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Cockneys traditionally speak in a rhyming slang which supposedly originated among barrow boys who didn't want their customers to understand what they said to each other.
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Happy boatmen belt out cockney canzoni from midstream.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to break a cockney's neck before I can convince him that I know the way I want things done, and they have to be done that way.
The Canadian Commonwealth
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After winning the cleaner's confidence, Amelia was shown the manuscript of several stories of a childhood based in cockney London.
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A true cockney is born within the sound of the bells of St Mary - Le - Bow church.
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All you could hear was the sound of cockney / mockney mixed in with the odd Mancunian / Scouse or public school accent.
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They also act according to the stereotypes promoted by the bourgeoisie of the time, including talking in comic-book cockney.
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London's Cockney accent will be gone in 30 years - replaced by Jafaican
The First Post: Latest
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This is characteristic of a Cockney accent.
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Mrs Croft spoke in a kind of gentrified Cockney, which became less gentrified as time went on and more couples spilled down the stairs and into the large, sofa-crammed living room.
Strip Jack
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He spied a ragid Cockney and a donkey selling delph
Pat Molloy
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We checked out a favorite old movie starring a bunch of hapless cockneys trying to nick some gold in Italy.
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Yet the usual signs of approach to an enormous city were awanting — dwarfed trees, market-gardens, cockney arbours, in which citizens smoke their pipes in the evening, and imagine themselves in Arcadia, rows of small houses, and a murky canopy of smoke.
The Englishwoman in America
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Streatley, and so went our ways into what once would have been the deeper country under the foot-hills of the White Horse; and though the contrast between half-cockneyfied and wholly unsophisticated country existed no longer, a feeling of exultation rose within me (as it used to do) at sight of the familiar and still unchanged hills of the
News from Nowhere
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I ordered the rest out of the van, in my imitation cockney voice.
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This might sound odd but I really hated his cockney accent in the film.
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Get you a kib, gentleman?" said a soft cockney voice in Craven's ear.
December Love
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It will feature more than 150 of the top punk and alternative acts from around the world in addition, strangely, to an appearance of cockney icons Chas and Dave.
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cockney vowels
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Before leaving for his meeting, the older one leans in close and mutters in his cockney accent a warning for the younger to be on the alert.
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The woman's husband spoke with a cockney accent.
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Sharp featured, with a Cockney accent and a biting wit, Mr Bowles was a gifted teacher.
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She has a broad cockney accent.
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There is also the fact that cockney gangsters of the sort found here had their cinematic stock crashingly devalued by all those geezer movies a few years ago.
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Earlier he had reduced the passengers of Bus no 1 to uncontrollable laughter with his mimicry - his Cockney, his Geordie and his Scouse.
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There Rice stumbles upon another self-pegged jumper, Griffin a ‘cockneyfied’ Jamie Bell, bringing a welcome touch of zest, who is a little less optimistic than his colleague.
JUMPER | Obsessed With Film
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Cromwell Marsh, a quick-talking cockney, pops up like a minor devil.
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You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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A new girl called Laura is in my class she has a real cockney accent and she's hilarious!
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This presents an interesting opportunity for me to recapture the peculiar shock I felt when I first heard a massed choir of cockneys singing the song.
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It was Sid, the Commando with the Cockney accent who had worked in the Kent coalfields.
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Her accent is a mixture of English cockney and West Country.
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Readers with long memories will recall a correspondence over the derivation of the cockney greeting 'wotcher' or 'wotcha'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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John Clarke is friendly, relaxed and speaks with a cockney accent undiminished by more than a quarter century spent in Ontario.
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I watched some of a terrible film that I hope no one else has to suffer, called Mrs 'arris in Paris which really lowered my opinion of Angela Landsbury, who played a cockney woman.
My loner-no friends day
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He habitually wore shabby tweeds and a cloth cap of the kind favoured by Cockney barrow boys, also by country squires.
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And while the north west - with its chirpy Mancs and Scousers - expects to come out on top, it faces rivalry from the Geordies and Cockneys.
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I've got London blood so I haven't struggled with the cockney accent.
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People with Cockney accents tend to drop their aitches.
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The taxi nosed its way back into the traffic as she introduced herself with a soft Cockney accent and a shy manner.
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I am not surprised that my memory has just reminded me, unprompted, that a ‘rozzer’ is cockney slang for a police person.
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Tonight it's given a spectacularly literal-minded and heterosexual interpretation and, for some reason, a cockney accent.
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She greets them with sweet singsong cockneyisms that bear no resemblance to her smoky Afro-American jazz singing voice.
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A Cockney costermonger is revealed as the new Earl of Hareford to the consternation of his aristocratic relations.
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Stil, maybe two is hours is all America needs to realise that a tiny pretend-cockney gonk constantly shouting made-up words and pretending that she likes indie music even though the most leftfield record she's ever bought is clearly Lady In Red isn't for them.
TV’s Fearne Cotton Is Officially A Freak
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I once knew a Cockney actor whose local "boozer" was the Coach and Horses in Soho, London.
Dining With Moira Hodgson
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His self-assuredness, cockney accent and slightly droopy bottom lip are strangely endearing.
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One of our lads was a cockney and only lived half-a-mile from the camp.
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The man spoke with a Cockney accent.
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West Ham gave it both barrels, as they say in cockney crime caper films, but somehow Liverpool fluked another trophy thanks to Steven Gerrard's heroics.
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This explanation is plausible but wrong; ‘captain’ is not a cockneyism.
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In modern cockney terms he was ‘a bit of a geezer’.
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She has a broad cockney accent.
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Bedawi, form a quaint contrast with the genteel, nattily dressed, and cockneyfied brooms of Egypt and the Hejaz.
The Land of Midian
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Even a born-and-bred cockney could understand the published, mongrel Scots-English version.
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In the comic, the main character is a blond cockney, modelled on a rock musician.
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On we went; and the water had the familiar aspect to me of the days before Pangbourne had been thoroughly de-cockneyfied, as I have seen it.
News from Nowhere
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The Cockney accent was put on for effect.
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You must love being so famous that your name is cockney rhyming slang.
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I could even listen with fair good humour to the harassed excuses of the Cockney porter carrying my valise as he protested that he didn't knaow nuffink abaht the trunk, guv ',' cos 'Erbert' ad gorn ter the guard's van for it, and where the 'ell' e'd got ter, Gawd ownly knew.
Watershed
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She recognized the typical cockney liveliness of these two girls.
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A tosser is man learned and skilled in the ways of Onan and a mockney acent is a cockney ccent affected by a middle class person.
Cruel and Unusual
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His fellow crims are cockneys too, and Danny was raised amongst these people.
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Glamour rating? Low- there's nothing glitzy about donning a greasy spoon pinny, and she adopts a cockney accent to fit in with the East End setting.
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The title, as enigmatic as most of the images we get to see during the movie, is actually a few words from the Cockney slang term "as queer as a clockwork orange," which Burgess decided to use to illustrate the oddity of a conditioned person ( "orang" being the Malay word for "man").
Film School Rejects
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Most of the town are displaced cockneys getting away from the smoke of London.
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London ones, though by no means so abominable even, one's company here being mainly God's sky and earth, not cockneydom with its slums, enchanted aperies and infernalries.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The rhymers par excellence have been the Cockneys of London, who have developed an elaborate and colourful collection of slang terms based on rhyme, such as trouble and strife for ‘wife’ and mince pies for ‘eyes’.
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He is a garrulous cockney from the old school of tabloid journalism.
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Today it's just as common to find upper-class kids adopting "mockney" - mock Cockney
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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This, as far as we can tell, means ‘he is the luckiest cockney in the world’.
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I always thought it was cockney rhyming slang for the mushy dollop of pasty gloop my disaster-of-a-cook east-end nan served up when I stayed at her house as a kid.
In praise of … the Big Fish Fight | Editorial
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If that play is ever performed here, I'll audition for it, since I can do cockney really well!
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It sounds like my friends and I are bunch of characters from Oliver Twist sitting around the table with cockney accents begging for more porridge.
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Paul best not to get involved in cockney stuff as it’s so terribly lower class.
Cheeseburger Gothic » There will be a short break in transmission while I get back under this bus.
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I have with me, as one of the things not to be forgotten, the memory of a cheap foreign hotel where, two or three years back, a little Cockney clerk was making holiday in worshipful attendance on the girl he was engaged to.
Marriage as a Trade
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His jailers are Hirst's menacing, gangsterish, Cockney-accented servants: Foster, played coolly as the smoother, more obviously gay one by David Walliams (of TV's "Little Britain" in his first "straight theater" role); and Briggs, played by Nick Dunning, as the one who delivers the Pinteresquely boring road-directions monologue while shimmering with suppressed violence.
Contemplating Artistic Mysteries
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We chuckled at the time, but seeing how Lily is a proper London cockney and not someone from Thailand, we think that calling someone a ladyboy is a bit uncalled for.
Lily Allen & Cheryl Cole: People, The War is Over
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Nor were men wanting among ourselves who had so steeped their brains in London literature as to mistake Cockneyism for European culture, and contempt of their country for cosmopolitan breadth of view, and who, owing all they had and all they were to democracy, thought it had an air of high-breeding to join in the shallow epicedium that our bubble had burst.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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The first recorded use of the word cockney was in 1521 to suggest an urban fool, a man who believed in an egg laid by a cockerel.
Telegraph Blogs
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Cockneys have short and open vowels, whereas the Cornish have longer vowels and speak fairly slowly.
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Hampton is now as it then was, the 'well-loved resort of cockneydom'.
The Three Clerks
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The terms represent both old and new in the modern lexicon of Cockney rhyming slang.
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Cockney rhyming slang
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And the subdued murmur of voices, cockneyfied, countrified, cultivated, all commenting on flowers, formed a hum like that of bees, if not so pleasing.
Flowering Wilderness
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The Cockney messiah made it clear he would be in sole charge of signings and team selection as the new boss.
The Sun
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A cockney by birth, he had been apprenticed to an engraver and had only become a soldier as a volunteer in the Warwickshire fencibles (reserve cavalry) in the invasion scare of 1800.
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The ebullient cockney was very worried about his protégé, the man he has called the best fighter he ever worked with.
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Today he looks back on the chirpy cockney character of the director's earlier work with something approaching distaste.
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Rickman's not the most striking stylist in the world he's got a habit I particularly dislike, though I see how it's tempting & I expect I fall into it myself, of marking a character's regional accent with the token stereotyped verbal tic, popping an "anyroad" into the Yorkshire guy's speech and a few "wivs" and such into the Cockney guy's and ... etc., without really having the characters speak in different patterns.
Archive 2005-06-01
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You won't hear much real Cockney spoken unless you go to the East End.
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The Cockney accent was put on for effect.
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Mastering his distaste with a grimace, he has to do a shady business deal with an expatriate Cockney superlad played by Ray Winstone.
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It can now be revealed that the ebullient cockney was very worried about his protégé, the man he has called the best fighter he was ever worked with.
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Jafaican, Tikkany, or the P.C. term, 'Multicultural London English' is arguably the fastest growing dialect that threatens to overcome cockney as the characteristic London voice.
Commuvolution, An International Process
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A cockney by birth, he signed for United as a trainee in 1991.
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We rattled up to the Kenmare Arms; and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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No consonant goes unsounded - except of course those shunned by Cockney patois.
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A cockney by birth, he had been apprenticed to an engraver and had only become a soldier as a volunteer in the invasion scare of 1800.
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Posssibly you could explain that if he was a real cockney as opposed to a pathetic little mockney he'd know you are not a ‘ginger’, you are a ‘duke’.
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Gurgling up through the Hightalian hair -- though it do 'ave a cockneyfied sniff, --
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892
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You get bits of UK garage, Caribbean steel drums and what can only be described as cockney country rock thrown in but while the 2 Bears are clearly having a laugh, there's a genuine passion for house music there.
Tim Jonze On Shuffle … House
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This is of course a cockney view of what, without offence, I will term a cockney proceeding.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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Pony is Cockney rhyming slang, you see, as in pony and trap, geddit?
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There are 4 gay guys, a lesbian, a black guy, 3 old people and cheeky cockney binman!!
Celebrating Christmas may provoke minority groups. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The two young East Enders looked and sounded for all the world like a couple of skinhead soccer fans, cockney accents and all.
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This is characteristic of a Cockney accent.
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As the series begins, Max bumps into a young cockney woman, an overworked but underpaid media researcher with a degree in communications.
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The attacker was described as 30 years old with short dark hair, slight build and a Cockney accent.
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Readers with long memories will recall a correspondence over the derivation of the cockney greeting 'wotcher' or 'wotcha'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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c They are "street" or "Jafaican" expressions which have overtaken cockney slang terms.
Evening Standard - Home
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But in the porchway of the village inn -- called the "Well-diggers 'Arms" -- whatever they may be -- I surprised a cockneyfied groom in the act of kissing a maiden who, having a milk-pail in either hand, could not be expected to resist.
Wandering Heath
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There is something very Arcadian and un-Cockney-like in the idea of linnet-singing in Lock's Fields.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
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Granddad was the son of a cockney who settled in Canada in the 19th century and set up a bakery.
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But that's only phase one of her plan - she's also planning to learn how to speak proper cockney.
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Getting called cockney, even though I was an Essex Boy.
A La Recherche Du Gents Perdue
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Mrs. Panton is a huge, protuberant woman, with a full-blown face, a bay wig, and artificial flowers; talking in an affected little voice, when she is in company, and when she has on her _company clothes and manners_; but bawling loud, in a vulgarly broad cockney dialect, when she is at her ease in her own house.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07
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Five hundred miles of distance to the Dee preclude the possibility of the dumping on her, by means of excursion trains, of loyal cockneydom.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
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At first, upstarts traded on their cockney origins; by the end of the decade any pop star worth his weight in velvet had acquired a stately home in the shires.
