mockneyn.adj.
/ˈmɒkni/, U.S. /ˈmɑkni/ British colloquial.
A. n.
1. An accent and form of speech affected (esp. by a middle-class speaker) in imitation of Cockney or of the speech of Londoners; (generally) mockney accent.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English
north country1698
west country1711
Yorkshire1717
Kenticism1735
English English1783
cockney1812
Cockneyese1823
East Angliana1825
Somersetian1825
Northumbrian1845
Norfolk1863
Kentish1866
Doric1870
Kensingtonian1911
Mummerset1915
Geordie1928
Hoxtoniana1935
scouse1963
mockney1967
Kensington1968
Liverpudlian1985
Jafaican2006
MLE2006
Multicultural London English2006
1967 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times VI. 162 To Mummerset and Hankypankyshire may be added the Mockney with which a B.B.C. actress playing a parlour-maid in some Pinero revival imagined was the way parlour-maids used to speak once upon a time.
1989 Times 2 Feb. 15/6 Such an accent, known in its day as ‘Mockney’.
1994 Observer 13 Mar. 25/2 Those people whose accents change from received pronunciation to Mockney depending on the social class of their listeners.
1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Nov. 202/3 We start..modifying our accent to a more acceptable mockney because he hails from the East End.
2. A person who assumes a mockney accent; a counterfeit Cockney.
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1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch 49 In a way nobody can blame any of us, the Mockneys or the cod Irish, the black wannabees or the pseudo Sloanes.
1994 Guardian 7 Oct. (Friday section) 11/3 The world's most famous Mockney.
1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Mar. 19 Cheeky ‘mockneys’ Blur.
B. adj. (attributive).
Designating an accent and form of speech of this kind. Later also: belonging to, characteristic of, or designating a person who affects this way of speaking.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English
north country1673
Mancunian1771
cockney1776
southernizing1861
Hiberno-English1864
Elizabethan1869
southernized1873
Welsh English1877
Norfolk1889
Tyneside1896
broguish1899
Anglo-Welsh1905
Oxford1928
Novocastrian1969
Konglish1975
Singlish1986
mockney1989
1989 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 15/3 The public schoolboys among my friends now always seem to be the ones with the strongest Mockney accents.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. (Mag.) 32/1 Anderson..employs the same strident Mockney tones used in the past by the likes of..Bowie.
1995 Face Jan. 78 (advt.) Blur's mockney, down-the-dogs blokey charm.
1996 Independent on Sunday 19 May (Real Lives section) 5/1 The improbable purchase was widely regarded as another piece of mockney posturing.
1997 Stuff Feb. 32/2 A strangled, mockney voice-over.
2000 Guardian 14 Nov. i. 22/1 God spare us from Mockney MPs who think they're comedians.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1967