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Example sentences for: cockney
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(Keats, for example, was ridiculed for writing "Cockney poetry."
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie that some people think is the cat's pajamas crossbred with the bee's knees.
This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).
Missing is a discussion of the word element which some derive from l + m + n; and (pp. 111-12) a reference to Luis d'Antin von Roote, Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (New York 1967) and to Catullus' hilarious poem (no. 84), The Egregious Cockney, persiflaging pre-Augustan Romans' tendency to overaspirate.