LekhoriLekhoriFrom the East End of London, or London generally.
Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.
Alternative form of Cockney.
Any Londoner.
COCKNEY, a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.
The dialect or accent of such Londoners.
Alternative form of Cockney.
First attested in Samuel Rowland's 1600 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine as "a Bowe-bell Cockney", from Middle English cokenay (“a spoiled child; a milksop, an effeminate man”), used in ...
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A Londoner born within earshot of the city's Bow Bells, or (now generically) any working-class Londoner.
Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.