noun
Etymology
Origin of cockneyism
Example Sentences
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Orson had bewildered them further by a sort of cockneyism of misappropriated letters.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
There was silence after this outburst, which for the life of me I could not help, remembering how I had suffered from cockneyism and its cause on those same waters of old time.
From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William
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 Butler, William Francis
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 Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
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