Example sentences for: cockney

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

  • 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 ).

  • The contrast also justifies the neat allusion to London whose Cockney vowels responsibly transmute the grapes of wrath and enrich our reflections.

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

  • 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.

  • ); Jamie Shea ("Each week the Nato press spokesman with a Cockney accent has been forced to explain away an array of Nato mistakes--in English and French.


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