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cockneyism

[ kok-nee-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. cockney quality or character.
  2. a cockney peculiarity, as of speech.


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Cockneyism charged against (see also Cockney School), 109 n.

Orson had bewildered them further by a sort of cockneyism of misappropriated letters.

It has colour, it is true English, unstained of Cockneyism and American.

Catullus in one of his epigrams ridicules the cockneyism of a person who said chommoda for commoda, and hinsidiae for insidiae.

But the self-complacency of Cockneyism is the most unshaken thing in this revolutionary age.

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