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

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

From A Little Tour in France by Henry James

In one instance he is guilty of the barbarous cockneyism of using the word party as an equivalent for person.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

Such paltry ridicule will have wounded deeper than the severest criticisms, particularly as he regarded what is called the cockneyism of the coterie with so much disgust.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

The childish bombast of "Titus Andronicus," the commonplace of Wordsworth, the frequent inanity of the youthful Coleridge and the youthful Byron, Shelley's extravagance, Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

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

From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell

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