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    cockney


    1. What I mean to say is who the fuck is it?" His was a thick, rich, cockney accent


    2. The cockney accent, the offer of help at a low moment


    3. Even with a set of knuckles in my wind pipe and the rank smell of Cockney scumbag breath up my nose I knew this came to €4500 total


    4. The balding grease monkey beside me answered his mobile in yet another thick cockney accent


    5. The cockney monkey next to me realized his balls up


    6. Frank and I ended up sharing a bay with a small bright eyed cockney bloke who had dark hair and a gravy dipper moustache


    7. “What’s a cockney doing with a Welsh Battalion I thought you would be with one of the London mobs?” He looked a little confused for a moment as he said


    8. Jack Lewis the small cockney who was guiding us said


    9. further than it normally was because of his shrapnel implant, combined with the way his cockney


    10. Gets up and shakes her clenched fists, and speaks with a broad Cockney Accent, "SORTED

    11. “Shut up you cockney rat,” the policeman shouted and slammed the door closed


    12. “I had Elton John in the back last week,”’ said DS Burrows in a heavy cockney accent


    13. ‘'A thowsand quid',’ she imitated his cockney twang


    14. ‘Say hi to me Mum,’ in a passable cockney as she tossed the phone over


    15. He had good vibes about the big cockney and wouldn’t be wasting too much time on him


    16. “Our cockney butcher is no mug and not as dumb as he would have us think


    17. He even managed to hang on to the ‘Solomon King,’ and eventually Greg had pronounced him an honourable cockney


    18. The London black cab, a cockney cabby and the impressive


    19. His Linguaphone Cockney accent made the suggestion faintly menacing


    20. ‘That sounds terrific darlin’,’ said Sebastian, whose Cockney factor had doubled in the presence of the young woman

    21. We were greeted upon entrance by a cockney named Dave but I couldn't see his mate Chaz anywhere


    22. “When I was in the Philippines” his loud friendly cockney demeanour could entertain and amuse any audience


    23. The Fairy Godmother was played by a mountainous cockney Brit dressed in a tutu and tights


    24. This gigantic conceit will not allow you to believe that this Cockney behind you—yes, he who sometimes rolls on the ground in fits—might have the same hopes and despairs as yourself


    25. Turning a corner, Henry came upon the little Cockney Jones, and saw him quickly thrust something into his pocket


    26. For a moment the Cockney seemed to grow smaller


    27. He was thinking of the little Cockney, Jones; thinking of the cold hand of epilepsy which had seized him in his last moment of life


    28. It is a fact that Americans from all sections and of all racial extractions are more alike than the Welsh are like the English, the Lancashireman like the Cockney, or for that matter the Lowland Scot like the Highlander


    29. Our artillery had just opened up when a tiny Cockney trumpeter, who could not have been more than 15 years old, came galloping up to us with a message


    30. My Cockney mate had located a hostile battery, and after some difficulty with the field telephone was giving the bearing to headquarters

    31. Our Cockney, a costermonger well known in the East End, volunteered


    32. The battalion to which I belonged had been heavily shelled for many hours, and among the casualties was "Topper" Brown, a Cockney, who was always in trouble for losing items of his kit


    33. Meanwhile "Wag" Bennett, a Cockney, though badly wounded, had dragged himself out of a shell-hole, and was crawling towards what proved later to be the enemy lines when he saw the forms of the other fellows in the darkness


    34. Jerry, a Cockney, was saying, "Yes, yer can always tell big 'uns—they shuffles," and went on to demonstrate with Shsh-shsh-shsh, when someone said "Listen!"


    35. I was detailed to go out and repair the line with a young Cockney from Hackney


    36. A little Cockney was so winded that he could hardly reach his stirrup, which kept slipping from under his foot


    37. Just then a shrapnel shell burst directly overhead, and the Cockney, without using his stirrup, vaulted clean into the saddle


    38. A party of about twenty Austrian prisoners, in charge of a single Cockney, were passing our position at the time, and the effect of the explosion on the prisoners was startling


    39. They scattered in all directions, vainly pursued by the Cockney, who reminded me of a sheep-dog trying to get his flock together


    40. There, despite the bombardment, we found a Cockney Tommy of the Buffs playing "Tipperary" on a piano which had been blown out of a house into the road

    41. The second Cockney was clad in the full garb of a twenty-stone French peasant woman, hat and all, and was dragging at the end of a chain a stuffed fox, minus its glass case, but still fastened to its baseboard


    42. After cautiously approaching the position and being challenged in a Cockney tongue, they entered the pill-box, and were astonished to see the occupants playing crown and anchor


    43. Of the two attached to our company, one was a Cockney


    44. A Cockney of the regiment puts his hands to his mouth and shouts to the crew: "Hi, don't hunch 'em; let 'em settle


    45. Along the trench came a Cockney with his rifle ready and his bayonet fixed


    46. The Cockney signaller who was with me at the time, after slithering along the trench for a time, said: "I've 'ad enough er this," and scrambled out of the trench


    47. He proved to be the most heroic Cockney I have ever seen


    48. A Cockney chum, whom I was going to relieve, was patrolling the position when suddenly over came a 5·9, which blew him about four yards away


    49. The spirit that little Cockney imbued into me that day indirectly saved me the loss of a limb, for without him I do not think I would have reached the advance dressing station in time


    50. The plane had only circled round a couple of times when a Cockney private, unable to resist the temptation any longer, jumped up and had a pot at it














































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    "cockney" definitions

    a native of the east end of London


    the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London


    characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect


    relating to or resembling a cockney