cockney，Cockney伦敦东区佬

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

The British term cockney literally means a“cock’s egg，”deriving from the Middle English cokeney．The word first meant a foolish child or a foolish person who did not know a good egg from a cock’s egg(a small egg with no yolk)．Country people next applied the term to city people in general，then to Londoners，and finally to London East Enders，people said to be born within sound of the bells of St．Mary—le—Bow(Bow Belts)who share a characteristic accent called Cockney．Actually，people who speak Cockney are found in London far out of earshot of Bow Bells．

这是英国用语，其字面意思是“没有蛋黄的蛋”，源于中古英语cokeney。该词最初指不能分辨无蛋黄的小蛋和好蛋的蠢孩子或傻瓜。后来乡下人把它用来指城里人，接着指伦敦人，最后指伦敦东区的人，即所谓出生在能听到伦敦圣玛丽·勒·博教堂钟声，并操着被称为Cockney(伦敦东区土话)的独特口音的人。事实上，在听不到圣玛·勒·博教堂钟声的伦敦其他地方也操这种口音。