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COCKNEY , a colloquial name applied to Londoners generally, but more properly confined to those See also:born in See also:London, or more strictly still to those born within the See also:sound of the bells of St See also:Mary-le-See also:Bow See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. The origin of the word has been the subject of many guesses, from that in See also:John Minsheu's See also:lexicon, Ductor in linguas (1617), which gives the See also:tale of the See also:town-bred See also:child who, on See also:hearing a See also:horse neigh, asked whether a " See also:cock neighed " too, to the confusion of the word with the name of the See also:Utopia, the See also:land of See also:Cockaigne (q.v.). The See also:historical examination of the various uses of " Cockney," by See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray (see See also:Academy, loth of May 1890, and the New See also:English See also:Dictionary, s.v,) clearly shows the true derivation. The earliest See also:form of the word is cokenay or cokeney, i.e. the ey or See also:egg, and coken, genitive plural of " cock," " cocks' eggs " being the name given to the small and malformed eggs sometimes laid by See also:young hens, known in See also:German as Hahneneier. An See also:early See also:quotation, in See also:Langland's Piers Plowman, A. vii. 272, gives the See also:combination of " cokeneyes " and See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
bacon to make a " collop," or dish of eggs and bacon. The word then applied to a child overlong nursed by its See also:mother, hence to a simpleton or milksop. Thus in See also:Chaucer, See also:Reeve's Tale, the word is used with See also:daf, i.e. a See also:fool. The particular application of the name as a See also:term of contempt given by See also:country folk to town-bred See also:people, with their dandified airs and See also:ignorance of country ways and country See also:objects, is easy. Thus See also:Robert See also:Whittington or Whitinton (fl. 1520), speaks of the " cokneys " in such " See also:great cytees as London, See also:York, Perusy " (See also:Perugia), showing the See also:general use of the word. It was not till the beginning of the 17th See also:century that " cockney " appears to be confined to the inhabitants of London.
The so-called " Cockney " See also:accent or See also:pronunciation has varied in type. In the first See also:part of the 19th century, it was chiefly characterized by the substitution of a v for a w, or See also:vice versa. This has almost entirely disappeared, and the See also:chief consonantal variation which exists is perhaps the See also:change of th to f or v, as in " See also:ling " for thing, or " favver " for See also:father. This and the vowel-sound change from ou to ah, as in " abaht " for " about," are only heard among the uneducated classes, and, together with other characteristic pronunciations, phrases and words, have been well illustrated in the so-called " coster " songs of See also:Albert See also:Chevalier. The most marked and widely-prevalent change of vowel sound is that of ei for ai, so that " daily " becomes " dyly " and " may " becomes " my." This is sometimes so marked
that it almost amounts to incapacity to distinguish the vowels a and i, and is almost universal in large classes of the See also:population of London. The name of the " Cockney School of See also:Poetry " was applied in 1817 to the See also:literary circle of which See also:Leigh See also:Hunt was the See also:principal representative, though See also:Keats also was aimed at. The articles in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, in which the name appeared, have generally, but probably wrongly, been attributed to John See also:Gibson See also:Lockhart.
COCK-OF-THE-See also:ROCK, the See also:familiar name of the birds of the genus Rupicola (subfamily Rupicolinae) of the Cotingas (allied to the Manakins, q.v.), found in the See also:Amazon valley. They are about the See also:size of a See also:pigeon, with See also:orange-coloured plumage, a pronounced See also:crest, and orange-red flesh, and build their nests on rock. The skins and feathers are highly valued for decoration.
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