noun
Etymology
Origin of cockneyism
Example Sentences
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About midday on the fourth day we halted at the Mission of the White Dog, a spot which some more than heathen missionary had named Islington in a moment of virtuous cockneyism.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
He had apparently once possessed a certain knowledge of English, and his accent was oddly tinged with the cockneyism of the British metropolis.
From The American by Henry James
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
He was not a coward, if his cockneyism had lured him after snipe; but he was unable to determine what kind of people the Puddlefordians were.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Mr. Guthrie has caught the cockney in the very act of cockneyism, and he has here pilloried him for all time, but wholly without bitterness or rancor.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
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