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  • noun Plural form of cockney.

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Examples

  • If coming from Newcastle is vitally important to you then support Newcastle Blue Star otherwise support everyone at our club and stop slagging off people for being 'cockneys' - It reminds me of those people in the ground who mutter 'darkie' under their breath when one of our black players make a mistake.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

  • He wore a very shiny top-hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was -- a smart young City man, of the class who have been labelled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regi - ments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • He wore a very shiny top-hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was -- a smart young City man, of the class who have been labelled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regi - ments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • He wore a very shiny top-hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was -- a smart young City man, of the class who have been labelled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regiments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.

    The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk 1893

  • It is to be observed, that the rustical founders are rather anxious to disclaim any connexion with their metropolitan followers, whom they ungraciously review, and call cockneys, atheists, foolish fellows, bad writers, and other hard names not less ungrateful than unjust.

    Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854

  • It is to be observed, that the rustical founders are rather anxious to disclaim any connection with their metropolitan followers, whom they ungraciously review, and call cockneys, atheists, foolish fellows, bad writers, and other hard names, not less ungrateful than unjust.

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

  • It is to be observed, that the rustical founders are rather anxious to disclaim any connexion with their metropolitan followers, whom they ungraciously review, and call cockneys, atheists, foolish fellows, bad writers, and other hard names not less ungrateful than unjust.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • It is to be observed, that the rustical founders are rather anxious to disclaim any connection with their metropolitan followers, whom they ungraciously review, and call cockneys, atheists, foolish fellows, bad writers, and other hard names, not less ungrateful than unjust.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • I do not want to be pendantic - I saw someone call them "cockneys" .

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • There was a banter, a wit and even to this day I think scousers and cockneys get on well because there's a mickey-taking culture that everyone enjoys.

    Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking' | Small Talk 2011

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