cockneyism

[ kok-nee-iz-uh m ]

/ ˈkɒk niˌɪz əm /

cockney quality or character.

a cockney peculiarity, as of speech.

Origin of cockneyism

cockney + -ism

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

In a Little Town |Rupert Hughes
Cockneyism charged against (see also Cockney School), 109 n.

Life of John Keats |Sidney Colvin
Not all the resources of pert Cockneyism availed that hapless domestic when she set eyes on Miss Mordaunt.

The Late Tenant |Louis Tracy
It has colour, it is true English, unstained of Cockneyism and American.

A Novelist on Novels |W. L. George

"Cockneyism," said Bob, with an inquisitiveness in his countenance.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. |Pierce Egan

cockneyism

/ (ˈkɒknɪˌɪzəm) /

a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys