noun
Etymology
Origin of cockneyism
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 William Morris
It is a cockneyism; and if you have fallen into the habit, it will require perhaps more perseverance than you imagine, to correct it.
From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous
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