cockneyism

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cockneyism

(ˈkɒknɪˌɪzəm)

(Linguistics) a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys

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cock•ney•ism

(ˈkɒk niˌɪz əm)

n.

a trait or feature, as of speech, characteristic of or peculiar to cockneys.

[1825–30]

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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.

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The Jamie Oliver way but with less fuss and Cockneyisms.

I'm not sure I would be brave enough to chuck glitter over anybody myself

(9) Senelick provides a useful overview of the range of concert venues pre-dating the music hall proper, and the emergence of 'cockneyisms', in his introduction to Tavern Singing in Early Victorian London: The Diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 and 1850, ed.

Cannibal ballads: not just a question of taste ..

IN THE days when it was taken as a matter of course that bus drivers were cheeky and the cemetery was the "last stop", he sat at the steering-wheel, his face crumpled beneath a peaked cap, oozing Cockneyisms of the knees-up Mother Brown, Cor Blimey!

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Remblance's fondness for colloquial cockneyisms also brought us Diamond Geezer and Eezaa Geezer.