Example sentences for: cockney

How can you use “cockney” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cockney slang for a half-crown coin was tusheroon, tossaroon, or tosheroon , a corruption of another slang term for this coin, madza caroon, a corruption of the Italian mezzo half corona crown.

  • In Cockney English, for example, where initial h is regularly dropped there is a tendency to compensate by supplying initial h where it does not belong.

  • 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.

  • (Keats, for example, was ridiculed for writing "Cockney poetry."

  • 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 ).


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