Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or like cockneys.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

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Examples

  • Pizzaville had one of the more memorable mnemonics for their number: "Thick cockneyish accent Remember, it's not 'seven-free sex-free sex-free sex', it's 'seven-free six-free six-free six'!"

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  • He hated Frenchmen, Scotchmen, and Americans, and had a cockneyish attachment to London.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • He hated Frenchmen, Scotchmen, and Americans, and had a cockneyish attachment to London.

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • He thought he would particularly like his illustrator to render the Dickensy, cockneyish quality of the, shabby-genteel ballad-seller of whom he stopped to ask his way to the street where

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • He thought he would particularly like his illustrator to render the Dickensy, cockneyish quality of the shabby-genteel ballad-seller of whom he stopped to ask his way to the street where Lindau lived, and whom he instantly perceived to be, with his stock in trade, the sufficient object of an entire study by himself.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • He thought he would particularly like his illustrator to render the Dickensy, cockneyish quality of the shabby-genteel ballad-seller of whom he stopped to ask his way to the street where

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • If his pronunciation was cockneyish, it was but a little so.

    There & Back George MacDonald 1864

  • My new acquaintance, who was cockneyish, but very intelligent and agreeable, went on to talk about many literary matters and characters; among others, about Miss Bronte, whom he had seen at the Chapter

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • My new acquaintance, who was cockneyish, but very intelligent and agreeable, went on to talk about many literary matters and characters; among others, about Miss Bronte, whom he had seen at the Chapter

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • He has been the laureate of Harvard College and the bard of Boston city, an urban poet, with a cockneyish fondness for old Boston ways and things -- the Common and the Frog Pond, Faneuil Hall and King's Chapel and the Old South, Bunker Hill, Long Wharf, the Tea Party, and the town crier.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

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