NOUN (2)

1. a native of the east end of London;

2. the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London;


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect;
- Example: "cockney vowels"

2. relating to or resembling a cockney;
- Example: "Cockney street urchins"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cockney \Cock"ney\, a.
   Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cockney \Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. Cockneys (-n[i^]z).
   [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. [ae]g. 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).
      [1913 Webster]

            This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
                                                  --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one
      living in the East End district; -- sometimes used
      contemptuously.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

            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 cockney[2].
      [PJC]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cockney
    adj 1: characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney
           vowels"
    2: relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
    n 1: a native of the east end of London
    2: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "Cockney":
   Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French,
   Everyman, French Canadian, Gullah, John Smith, Midland,
   Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee,
   Yorkshire, average man, bourgeois, bundle of isoglosses,
   class dialect, common man, commoner, dialect, dialect atlas,
   dialect dictionary, idiom, isogloss, linguistic atlas,
   linguistic community, linguistic island, little fellow, little man,
   local dialect, localism, patois, pleb, plebeian, proletarian,
   provincialism, regional accent, regionalism, roturier,
   speech community, subdialect



Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "cockney":
   baseborn, below the salt, common, commonplace, homely, humble, low,
   lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain,
   plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, third-estate, ungenteel, vulgar