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- noun The
region orhome ofCockneys ; Cockneys collectively.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They may well lay claim to the title of Champions of Cockneydom incarnate, setting forth on their heroic quest from the rendezvous in the Seven Dials.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Germans, German Jews, and all the many tribes of Cockneydom.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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Cockneydom, diversified by glimpses of a suburban Arcadia, in which the
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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I found all that a completely changed matter since the days of Pope and his sylvan eclogues; and the real name of it now to be Windsor Cockneydom unchained.
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Cockneydom were let loose upon the nascent lodging-houses.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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Outside Worker, in Cockneydom of the nineteenth century.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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Mr Jerdan passed through various situations _on_ various papers, as the elegant language of Cockneydom hath it, and thus he has been enabled to give some curious sketches of the _personnel_ of the press in those days.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Various 1836
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