How to Use cockney in a Sentence

cockney

noun

• Ned Kelly is a euphemism, in some bizarre Northside Dublin version of cockney, for belly.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• Its wry tone and story, about a swaggering, coldhearted cockney Lothario who works as a chauffeur for the rich, appealed to Mr. Gilbert.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• In My Fair Lady, the movie adaptation of the play Pygmalion, a flower vendor with a cockney accent receives voice lessons to sound like a member of the nobility.
  — Neanda Salvaterra, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
• The poem isn’t diminished by learning that Vivien wrote wonderful next to the nervy wife’s dialogue in the manuscript, or that the cockney monologue at the end of the same section was modeled after the speech of the Eliots’ housemaid, Ellen Kellond.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Rossetti’s friends were scandalized by his open relationship with a working-class woman with a Cockney accent.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• His accent careens from unconvincing cockney to erratic southern drawl.
  — Mia Leonin, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
• Distributing tarts the traditional way, in a wicker basket carried by a theater student doing a heavy cockney accent, was deemed unsanitary by festival leadership.
  — Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Cockney and British accents have punctuated classroom discussions.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 2 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024