Example sentences for: cockney

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

  • (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  • This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).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.


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