cockneyism

American  

[kok-nee-iz-uhm] / ˈkɒk niˌɪz əm /

noun

1. cockney quality or character.

2. a cockney peculiarity, as of speech.

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cockneyism British  

/ ˈkɒknɪˌɪzəm /

noun

1. a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys

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Etymology

Origin of cockneyism

cockney + -ism

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Example Sentences

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cockneyism

The angler of that ilk fifty years ago, as I can well remember, for all his cockneyism, worked hard for his sport, and enjoyed a fair amount of it.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

No cockneyism or colloquialism mars the sweetness of her speech. 

From Reviews by Oscar Wilde

Which being interpreted into cockneyism would read, 'If you threw a glass of whisky over Westminster Bridge it would be better grog than that at Greenwich Pier.'

From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.

It was brought home to me that the populations rurales have many different ways of suffering, and my heart glowed with a grateful sense of cockneyism.

From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell

I trudge up the Mont Cavalier,--it is a matter of five minutes,--and having committed this cockneyism enhanced it presently by another.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

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