Londonish

Living in the most expensive halls merely for an en-suite bathroom meant I had to lose my south Londonish accent very quickly.

University Guide: what every student should know 2011

Here you could come, sit, and let your mind drift in four different directions: Broadway, which at this height had an unspecified Northern European cast; West End, decidedly Londonish; 107th, very quiet, very narrow, tucked away around the corner, reminded me of those deceptively humble alleys where one finds stately homes along the canals of Amsterdam.

My (Imaginary) Dinner With Lydia Davis 2009

The offices of Private Eye and the New Left Review, both of which have shaken the world in their different ways, have always been in this little warren of streets: strangely un-Londonish and Manhattan-like in its formation along a grid system with a central square.

Last Call, Bohemia Hitchens, Christopher 2008

Re the power thing: Ms R sometimes finds that being confident and articulate and strangely enough feminine, is scary to many men of Londonish origins who are in her age group.

In praise of younger men Ms Robinson 2007

If you give me a pair of scissors I will cut off my hair, she said, her speech polite but faintly Londonish—Surrey or Kent, perhaps.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

If you give me a pair of scissors I will cut off my hair, she said, her speech polite but faintly Londonish—Surrey or Kent, perhaps.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

It is the gayest, most Londonish street in London.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

His topics are even closelier drawn; they are not so properly English, as _Londonish_.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804

_Coelum non animum mutant_ [Footnote: One changes one's sky but not one's soul.], is an old observation; I passed this afternoon in confirming the truth of it among the English traders settled here: whose conversation, manners, ideas, and language, were so truly _Londonish_, so little changed by transmigration, that I thought some enchantment had suddenly operated, and carried me to drink tea in the regions of

Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781