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# cockney

«cockney» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person from the East End of London, traditionally…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cockney, cockneys; Cockney); adjective (cockney)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person from the East End of London, traditionally someone born within the sound of the Bow Bells church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#m1)

2) The accent and dialect of London's East End, which drops some h sounds and uses «rhyming slang». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English and history lessons, Cockney is an example of a dialect. Cockney rhyming slang says a rhyme instead of the word, like «apples and pears» for stairs. In films, characters like Mary Poppins' Bert speak Cockney.

### examples

- He was born in the East End, a true Cockney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x1)
- «Apples and pears» means stairs in Cockney rhyming slang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x2)
- She speaks with a Cockney accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x3)
- Cockneys often drop the h: «'ello». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x4)
- «Use your loaf» is Cockney for «use your head». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x5)
- Bert in «Mary Poppins» has a Cockney accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/#x6)

### note

Often capital C. Cockney is a dialect, not wrong English; Standard English is used in school writing. Rhyming slang: «loaf of bread» = head, so «loaf» means head.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cockney» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockney/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.