- [countable]
a person from the East End of London 伦敦东区的人 - [uncountable]
the way of speaking that is typical of cockneys 伦敦东区的口音(或土腔) a cockney accent 伦敦东区口音
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a pampered child): origin uncertain; it is apparently not the same word as Middle English cokeney ‘cock's egg’, denoting a small misshapen egg (probably from cock + obsolete ey ‘egg’). A later sense was ‘a town-dweller regarded as affected or puny’, from which the current sense arose in the early 17th cent.