How do you use Cockney in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like english or londoner, plus the exact meaning.
Cockney meaning
- From the East End of London, or London generally.
- Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.
Using Cockney
- The main meaning on this page is: From the East End of London, or London generally. | Of or relating to people from this area or their speech style.
- Useful related words include: english, english language, londoner.
- In the example corpus, cockney often appears in combinations such as: cockney accent, the cockney, of cockney.
Context around Cockney
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cockney
- In this selection, "cockney" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, having, modern, loverly, accent, flower and hardman stand out and add context to how "cockney" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a descriptor cockney and a loverly cockney flower girl. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cockney" sits close to words such as aayog, absentees and accruing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cockney
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My character Ben is just a normal Cockney lad. (9 words)
But we prefer the Cockney version: "Norman Flaming Rockwell". (9 words)
Maybe it will enhance your membership of the cockney club. (10 words)
In his defense, Hanks says he talks with a Jamaican accent in the same way that someone who watched an English film and then starts saying stuff like “‘Eh, give me a latte, Govna,” in a Cockney accent. (38 words)
Feared at first for their provocative nature – and use of “thieves’s slang” – these new East Enders softened into a cheekier, more approachably working-class form as the century progressed, establishing themselves enough to acquire a descriptor, Cockney. (38 words)
But it’s that Aboriginal love of country combined with cockney humour, Celtic derring-do and the immigrant’s desire to give it a go that have alchemised into the spirit of Australia. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cllr Ali said: “Many people identify as Cockneys rather than having Cockney as a language and modern Cockney has got a lot of Patois in it.
Her voice's inability to work with a cockney accent also leads to one of 's funniest moments.
Only the intervention of a loverly cockney flower girl armed with a hosted bar, a pair of tweezers, and a toy doctorate in Competition Committee Psychiatry can save the day.
Cockney hardman Danny Dyer has turned posh chauffeur after paying £200,000 cash for a new Bentley.
Cockney said he often sees organizations introduce Indigenous kids to sports but there is a gap when it comes to supporting them into high level athletics.
First, a lunchtime variety bill featuring one Cockney MC, two masters (ahem) of improvisation, and three stand-ups.
He famously once sold 'Cockney smog' - milk bottles filled with exhaust fumes - to American tourists - that's believed to be the inspiration behind the famous 'Peckham Spring' episode.
London-based Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel shot to fame in the early 1970s covering a range of styles from pop to prog rock.
Maybe it will enhance your membership of the cockney club.
Michael Landy said in his experience, younger Londoners were largely unaware of cockney rhyming slang and had their own phrases that he didn’t understand.
My character Ben is just a normal Cockney lad.
Such is the demand for the Cockney staple dish, that Susan has asked West Kingsdown Parish Council if she can use its nearby car park for her van.
The century-old tale of a Cockney flower girl having her manners and speech transformed is set for a multi-week stay at Malvern Theatres.
But it’s that Aboriginal love of country combined with cockney humour, Celtic derring-do and the immigrant’s desire to give it a go that have alchemised into the spirit of Australia.
But we prefer the Cockney version: "Norman Flaming Rockwell".
In his defense, Hanks says he talks with a Jamaican accent in the same way that someone who watched an English film and then starts saying stuff like “‘Eh, give me a latte, Govna,” in a Cockney accent.
This cockney eel lover, once an orphan, killed Jack the Ripper, has an abnormally large thumb and seems to delight in having a giant polo around his eye.
Feared at first for their provocative nature – and use of “thieves’s slang” – these new East Enders softened into a cheekier, more approachably working-class form as the century progressed, establishing themselves enough to acquire a descriptor, Cockney.
It's much like English speakers might have a Cockney, Midlands or West Country accent.
The east London road, an artery linking Bethnal Green to Spitalfields, was home to a mix of teddy boys, cockney housewives and newly-arrived Bangladeshi migrants in dapper flared suit trousers.
Common combinations with cockney
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cockney accent 9×
- the cockney 8×
- of cockney 5×
- with cockney 3×
- cockney rhyming 3×
- cockney sing-a-long 2×
- cockney flower 2×
- in cockney 2×
- and cockney 2×