Definition of Cockneyish
1. a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
Definition of Cockneyish
1. Adjective. Characteristic of, or resembling, Cockneys. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockneyish
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockneyish
Literary usage of Cockneyish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Home--who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western Life by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1839)
"... observer of men and things, consoled myself for this derogatory view of
Montacute gentility, by thinking, " All city people are so cockneyish ! ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"12. Writes like a man; that is the reason why men of sense and women of spirit
are attracted by his style. There is nothing effeminate, cockneyish, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Almost all people wax cockneyish as they get old ; and we freely confess here,
where there are none to overhear us but these Tors, and they will be mum, ..."
4. American Literature by Julian Willis Abernethy (1902)
"To him Boston was " the hub of the universe," and for everything within sight of
the State House dome he exhibited a kind of cockneyish devotion. ..."
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