cockney

1. a native of East London, traditionally one born within hearing of Bow Bells.

   Charlie was a cockney by birth, but he'd spent a lot of time abroad

2. a young snapper fish ( Chrysophrys auratus ).

1. of or characteristic of cockneys or their dialect or accent.

   cockney humour

late Middle English (denoting a pampered child): origin uncertain; it is apparently not the same word as Middle English cokeney ‘cock's egg’, denoting a small misshapen egg (probably from cock¹ + obsolete ey ‘egg’). A later sense was ‘a town-dweller regarded as affected or puny’, from which the current sense arose in the early 17th century.