Word Meanings - COCKNEYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
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- COCKNEY
child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great - COCKNEYFY
To form with the manners or character of a cockney. - DIALECTAL
Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant. - COCKNEYISH
Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. - COCKNEYDOM
The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray. - DIALECTIC; DIALECTICAL
1. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental. 2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. Earle. - DIALECTOR
One skilled in dialectics. - DIALECTIC
See SCOTT - DIALECTICALLY
In a dialectical manner. - DIALECTICS
That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle - COCKNEYISM
The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney. - DIALECTOLOGY
That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck. - DIALECTICIAN
One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner. - DIALECT
1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region - TRANSDIALECT
To change or translate from one dialect into another. Bp. Warburton. - SUBDIALECT
A subordinate dialect.