Cockney

The Cockney mode of speech, with its unpleasant twang, is a modern corruption without legitimate credentials, and is unworthy of being the speech of any person in the capital city of the Empire.

Tom speaks with a Cockney accent.

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang.

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang. It means "How's your wife?"

Cockney songsters Chas & Dave were recently in the top ten of the UK Vinyl Singles Chart with a reissue of their 1982 paean to days out at the seaside, Margate.

COCKNEY, a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.

Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.

A Cockney or Cocksie, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London.

“Charming place, ma’am,” said he, bowing to the widow; “noble prospect—delightful to us Cocknies, who seldom see anything but Pall Mall.”

Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer. Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.