How to Use cockney in a Sentence

cockney

noun
  • Our Gravedigger speaks to us, and to the moon, about her heart’s desire in charming cockney rhyming slang.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Dick Van Dyke’s cockney in Mary Poppins is still mocked, but fondly.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Ned Kelly is a euphemism, in some bizarre Northside Dublin version of cockney, for belly.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But the film itself proved to be one of Allen’s darkest efforts, the tale of two cockney brothers, down on their luck, who agree to commit a murder with tragic results.
    — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
  • His accent careens from unconvincing cockney to erratic southern drawl.
    — Mia Leonin, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Rossetti’s friends were scandalized by his open relationship with a working-class woman with a Cockney accent.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
  • Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney merchant to be a lady.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Cockney and British accents have punctuated classroom discussions.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 2 May 2017
  • The affair grows less decorous in farcical scenes of upstairs and downstairs life — kitchen staff toiling away on blunts, a trigger-happy shooting party, and cockney pub patrons breaking out in song — and the various side plots.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Distributing tarts the traditional way, in a wicker basket carried by a theater student doing a heavy cockney accent, was deemed unsanitary by festival leadership.
    — Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2021
  • In My Fair Lady, the movie adaptation of the play Pygmalion, a flower vendor with a cockney accent receives voice lessons to sound like a member of the nobility.
    — Neanda Salvaterra, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • Cocky, cockney, and constantly beset by everyday duties, this (along with Alfie the following year) is the birth of Michael Caine the everyman superstar.
    — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
  • On a number of special occasions, however, including several festival sets and television appearances, Daniels has popped up to perform his famous cockney monologue.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 12 June 2023
  • The hotel’s assistant manager, a cockney turned Bolshevik named Jack Margolis, explained to one journalist that the dining room was closed to keep the guests safe in the event of a direct hit on the famous glass ceiling.
    — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
  • The Faustian bargain six desperate young friends forge with an ageless dragon (with a cockney accent) is the spawning root of a plot that reaches through dark academia, political intrigue, techno-anxiety, psychedelic ritual, and esoteric lore.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The poem isn’t diminished by learning that Vivien wrote wonderful next to the nervy wife’s dialogue in the manuscript, or that the cockney monologue at the end of the same section was modeled after the speech of the Eliots’ housemaid, Ellen Kellond.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022

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