There is a rustic Cockneyism, as little pleasing as ours of London.

There is a rustick Cockneyism, as little pleasing as ours of London.

What was your name, then?" said Tom, who recognised the woman's Berkshire accent beneath its coat of cockneyism.

The truth is, we from the beginning saw marks of feeling and power in Mr. Keats's verses, which made us think it very likely, he might become a real poet of England, provided he could be persuaded to give up all the tricks of Cockneyism, and forswear for ever the thin potations of Mr. Leigh Hunt.

As the "iron horse" hurries us onward, the ears are assailed, amid the wild majesty of Nature, with the puny cockneyisms of "Rome," "Syracuse," &c. Such absurdities are ridiculous enough in our suburban villas; but to find them substituted for the glorious old Indian names, is positively painful.

Mr. Pegge speaks of it as a common Cockneyism at the beginning of this century.