The type of speech used by people from the East End of London.Cockney as a dialect is most notable for its argot, or coded language, which was born out of ingenious rhyming slang.Non-RhoticTRAP-BATH splitThe word Cockney originally had a pejorative connotation, originally deriving from cokenay, or cokeney, a late Middle English word of the 14th century that meant, literally, "cocks' egg", i.e., a small or defective egg, imagined to come from a rooster—which, of course, cannot produce eggs.Synonymous with the working-class.The word "cockney" itself was used as far back as the 14th century.

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