Adjective modifier

• chirpy: The image of the chirpy cockney was largely an invention of the Music Halls, which thrived in London, Northern England and Scotland.

• true: T he people of the East End of London - the true cockneys - are a race apart.

• loveable: We were going where the streets were paved in gold and loveable cockneys - we were off to London.

Modifies a noun

• accent: Fancy your son having a cockney accent, good for you!

• sparrow: And I had found some people disposed to joining me: genial Swede Magnus and cockney sparrow Ash.

• girl: In 1914, Bernard Shaw wrote the part of the cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, for her.

• lad: Jim London ( Jim Davidson ) is a down-to-earth, working class cockney lad.

• speaker: Cockney speakers also sometimes extend glottal replacement to affect [ p ] and [ k ] as well as [ t ] .

• geezer: It seems that everyone is a cockney geezer, lifted straight from the set of Lock Stock.

Noun used with modifier

• end: While associated very much around the world with the east end cockney modern London is very different to the that stereotype.