See Also: varied(dictionary)
varied(dictionary)
Never Varied - Golf(gambling)
Time-varied gain(medicine)
Time-varied gain control(medicine)

cockney (oh) and varied (iou)


cockney (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Origin: cockney 'male chicken's egg, child treated too well, person who lives in a town' (14-19 centuries), from cocken 'of cocks' + ey 'egg' (11-16 centuries) (from Old English Ag)]
[C] someone who comes from the east part of London, and who has a particular way of speaking which is typical of working class people who live there
[U] a way of speaking English that is typical of working class people in the east part of London
-- cockney adj
::She has a broad cockney accent.

varied (iou)



varied ppl adjective. LME.
[from VARY verb + -ED1.]
Varicoloured, variegated (esp. in the names of birds and animals). LME.
varied SITTELLA. varied thrush a migratory thrush, Ixoreus naevia, of northern and western N. America, which has orange and black or brown underparts, with the back slate-blue in the male and grey-brown in the female.
Differing from one another; of different or various sorts or kinds. L16.
Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear! P. G. Wodehouse Varied methods..of borrowing money.
Marked by variation or variety; occurring in different forms or qualities; undergoing or having undergone variation. M18.
G. P. R. James The path she followed was like a varied but a pleasant life. W. Styron Varied weatherhot days, then oddly cool, damp days.
variedly adverb in a varied manner, diversely E19.
variedness noun (rare) L19.