Cock·ney n.; pl. Cockneys
1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. “A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.”
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak.
2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay.