Of+Cockneys
111rhyming slang — Witty and often inventively reflecting contemporary persons and events, rhyming slang turns ‘use your head’ first into ‘your loaf of bread’, then truncates it to ‘your loaf, now an everyday idiom. News from the Afghan frontier prompted… …
112dutch — noun (usu. one s old dutch) Brit. informal (especially among cockneys) one s wife. Origin C19: abbrev. of duchess …
113one's old dutch — Brit. informal (especially among cockneys) one s wife. → dutch …
114cockney — I. n. [Term of slight ridicule.] Londoner, native or resident of London. II. a. Of Cockneys, Cockney like …
115rhyming — slang noun (U) a way of talking, used especially by cockneys (=people from east London), in which you use words or phrases that rhyme with the words you mean, instead of using the normal words. For example, plates of meat is rhyming slang for… …
116rhyming slang — UK [ˌraɪmɪŋ ˈslæŋ] / US noun [uncountable] British a way of talking in which you replace the normal word for something with a word or phrase that rhymes with it. An example is dog and bone instead of phone . Rhyming slang is used especially by… …
117cockneyism — cock•ney•ism [[t]ˈkɒk niˌɪz əm[/t]] n. ling. peo a trait or feature, as of speech, characteristic of or peculiar to cockneys • Etymology: 1825–30 …
118Amazon — Am·a·zon (ăm’ə zŏn′, zən) ► n. 1) A member of a legendary nation of women warriors reputed to have lived in ancient Scythia. 2) often amazon A tall, aggressive, strong willed woman. 3) often amazon Any of various predominantly green parrots of… …
119ere — pronounced like air and meaning ‘before’, has been in continuous use as a preposition and conjunction from the Old English period. Now it is only used for archaic effect or in poetry, but it refuses to disappear altogether: • And time seemed… …
120cockney — ► NOUN (pl. cockneys) 1) a native of the East End of London, traditionally one born within the sound of Bow Bells. 2) the dialect or accent prevailing in this area. ORIGIN originally denoting a pampered child, later a town dweller regarded as… …
