cockneyisms

But Mr Horne is so enamoured "with the old familiar faces" of pet cockneyisms, that he must have his will of them.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

I do not often endure with patience any cockneyisms or showings off at these lovely places.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

I do not often endure with patience any cockneyisms or showings off at these lovely places.

The Life of John Ruskin 1893

Here again is an edition (the first) of Hazlitt's _Lectures on the English Comic W.iters_, annotated copiously in MS. by a contemporary reader who was certainly not an admirer; and upon whom W. H.'s cockneyisms, Gallicisms, egotisms, and "_ille_-isms" generally, seem to have had the effect of a red rag upon an inveterately insular bull.

De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880

He would not have an English servant there except Mrs Courthope: he would not have the natural country speech corrupted with cockneyisms, and his people taught to speak like Wallis!

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

He mimicked Sir Henry's cockneyisms more than my father's chivalry approved towards his recent host, as he described the complaints he had heard against 'my Lady being refused the hentry at Halmack's, but treated like the wery canal;' and how the devoted husband 'wowed he would get up a still more hexclusive circle, and shut hout these himpertinent fashionables who regarded Halmack's as the seventh' eaven. '

Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

One of the finest descriptions of a fox-hunt ever written is to be found in the account of Jorrocks 'day with the "Old Customer," disfigured, unfortunately, by an overload of impossible cockneyisms, put in the mouth of the impossible grocer.

A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid 1846

Mrs. Trollope has written a vast deal of nonsense, putting cockneyisms into the mouths of Americans, and calling them Americanisms, but she has also written a good many truths.

A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

"One sometimes falls in with what are _rum_ chaps," returned the other, who, from following the London trade, had caught a few cockneyisms.

Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820

She greets them with sweet singsong cockneyisms that bear no resemblance to her smoky Afro-American jazz singing voice.

The Guardian World News Garry Mulholland 2004