英汉词典

cockney 基本解释

• n. 伦敦腔；伦敦人
• adj. 伦敦人的；伦敦方言的

cockney 词态变化

cockney 中文词源

cock, 公鸡。-ey, 蛋，词源同egg .字面意思即公鸡下的蛋，贬义用法，形容拿腔拿调的人。

cockney 英文词源

cockney

cockney: [14] Etymologically, a cockney is a ‘cock’s egg’ (it comes from cokene, the old genitive plural of cock, and ey, the Middle English word for ‘egg’). This was a medieval term for a small or misshapen egg, the ‘runt’ of the clutch, supposedly laid by a cock, and it came to be applied (probably egged on by Middle English cocker ‘pamper’) to a ‘pampered child’ or ‘mother’s boy’.

In the 16th century we find that it has passed on to ‘town dweller’ (the notion being that people who lived in towns were soft and effete compared with countrymen), and by around 1600 it had started to mean more specifically ‘someone born in the city of London’. The popular definition ‘someone born within the sound of Bow bells’ is first reported by the lexicographer John Minsheu in 1617.
=> cock, egg

cockney (n.)

c. 1600, usually said to be from rare Middle English cokenei, cokeney "spoiled child, milksop" (late 14c.), originally cokene-ey "cock's egg" (mid-14c.). Most likely disentangling of the etymology is to start from Old English cocena "cock's egg" -- genitive plural of coc "cock" + æg "egg" -- medieval term for "runt of a clutch," extended derisively c. 1520s to "town dweller," gradually narrowing thereafter to residents of a particular neighborhood in the East End of London. Liberman, however, disagrees:

[I]n all likelihood, not the etymon of ME cokeney 'milksop, simpleton; effeminate man; Londoner,' which is rather a reshaping of [Old French] acoquiné 'spoiled' (participle). However, this derivation poses some phonetic problems that have not been resolved.

The accent so called from 1890, but the speech peculiarities were noted from 17c. As an adjective in this sense, from 1630s.

cockney 英文释义

1. the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London

cockney 双语例句

1. He had coarsened his voice to an approximation of Cockney.

他让自己的口音变得粗俗起来，接近伦敦东区的发音。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The Cockney accent was put on for effect.

这伦敦腔是为了给人以深刻印象而故意装出来的。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Pomeroy was a cockney barrow-boy at heart.

波默罗伊本质上就是个伦敦街头小贩。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The man spoke with a Cockney accent.

那人说话带伦敦东区口音。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Cockney is the colourful dialect spoken in the East End of London.

伦敦方言是在伦敦东区讲的颇有特色的地方语.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

cockney 实用场景例句

a cockney accent

伦敦东区口音

牛津词典

...a Cockney cab driver...

开出租车的伦敦东区佬

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Pomeroy was a cockney barrow-boy at heart.

波默罗伊本质上就是个伦敦街头小贩。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The man spoke with a Cockney accent.

那人说话带伦敦东区口音。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Becks hasn't changed since I've known him. He's always been a Cockney git.

自从我认识他以来,小贝从来没有改变过. 他一直就是个光芒四射的伦敦饭桶.

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The corporal , too, a cheerful little cockney, appeared to regard us as his brothers. He aface.

连下士也显得那么和蔼可亲, 他操着欢快的伦敦腔, 把我们称做他的好兄弟.

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A cockney, time of son has the face.

一口地道的伦敦腔, 倍儿有面子.

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A true Cockney is born within ( the ) sound of Bow Bells.

一个人,要是在他出生的地方能听得到伦敦鲍教堂的钟声,那他才算得上是真正的伦敦人.

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The driver, a little Cockney dressed in proper black, not visibly suffering from the Moscow heat.

司机是个矮小的,穿着合乎传统的黑色制服的伦敦市井小民, 看不出莫斯科的热浪对他有什么影响.

辞典例句

He speaks with a cockney accent.

他说话带有伦敦腔.

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He is a true Cockney, born within the sound of Bow bells.

他是个真正的伦敦人, 一个地道的伦敦人.

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Cockney was his own man and had broad horizons beyond the office.

卡克尼是个独立自主的人,他的眼界十分开阔,超出了办公室的范围.

辞典例句

Cockney is a London accent, widely broadcast by'Enry'Iggins in the musical My Fair Lady.

伦敦人是拥有伦敦口音, 在音乐窈窕淑女里被广泛传播的那种口音.

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Read on, to learn more about Cockney rhyming slang.

接着读一读吧, 来更多地了解一下老伦敦的押韵俚语.

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So what then makes a cockney?

那么到底什么样的人算是伦敦人 呢 ?

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Higgins tried to mould the cockney girl into a elegant lady.

希金斯想把那个柔弱的女孩造就成一位高雅的淑女.

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Cockney is the colourful dialect spoken in the East End of London.

伦敦方言是在伦敦东区讲的颇有特色的地方语.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The Cockney accent was put on for effect.

这伦敦腔是为了给人以深刻印象而故意装出来的。

柯林斯例句

The man spoke with a Cockney accent.

那人说话带伦敦东区口音。

柯林斯例句

He had coarsened his voice to an approximation of Cockney.

他让自己的口音变得粗俗起来，接近伦敦东区的发音。

柯林斯例句