cockneyism

The angler of that ilk fifty years ago, as I can well remember, for all his cockneyism, worked hard for his sport, and enjoyed a fair amount of it.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

Which being interpreted into cockneyism would read, 'If you threw a glass of whisky over Westminster Bridge it would be better grog than that at Greenwich Pier.'

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

In one instance he is guilty of the barbarous cockneyism of using the word _party_ as an equivalent for _person_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism; every noble activity makes room for itself.

II. English Traits. Voyage To England 1909

Which being interpreted into cockneyism would read, 'If you threw a glass of whisky over Westminster Bridge it would be better grog than that at Greenwich Pier.'

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

There was silence after this outburst, which for the life of me I could not help, remembering how I had suffered from cockneyism and its cause on those same waters of old time.

News from Nowhere 1892

But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

Democratic manners were at a discount in these little hotbeds of amateur cockneyism; the gloomy severities of the old-fashioned religion were put aside; there was an increasing gap between the higher and the lower orders of the population.

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions.

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

There was silence after this outburst, which for the life of me I could not help, remembering how I had suffered from cockneyism and its cause on those same waters of old time.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890