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say it: KAHK-nee
cockney is a noun and adjective meaning "a native of the east end of London". It carries 4 recorded senses.
characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect
“cockney vowels”
relating to or resembling a cockney
“Cockney street urchins”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cockney come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.