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Definition of Cockneyisms
1. cockneyism [n] - See also: cockneyism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockneyisms
Literary usage of Cockneyisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Massachusetts Teacher (1854)
"speak better English than gentlemen, to exclude this and all other cockneyisms
from their society, and to teach their children to shun these vulgar ..."
2. Sketches of Germany and the Germans: With a Glance at Poland, Hungary by Edmund Spencer (1836)
"... the Crown Prince—Military—Political Observations—Society at Berlin —National
character—Berlin cockneyisms—Mode of living—Military despotism—Potsdam—Tomb ..."
3. Rural Essays by Andrew Jackson Downing (1858)
"... with each other and with their uses ; and that no cockneyisms, no imitations
of city splendor, had violated the simplicity and modesty of the country. ..."
4. Glasgow, Past and Present: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports and in by Aliquis, James Pagan, J. B., Robert Reid (1856)
"At this time the head waiter of the City Coffee House was a cockney of the first
water, who not only murdered the English language with cockneyisms, ..."
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