单词 | cockneyism |
释义 | cockneyismn. 1. a. A feature of language or pronunciation characteristic of the Cockney dialect or accent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > idiom of Londonism1803 cockneyism1804 Englishism1804 Suffolkism1823 Borderism1839 Northumbrianism1845 Yorkshirism1849 Brummagism1858 southernism1920 northernism1942 1804 J. Thelwall Let. to F. Jeffray, Esq. Appendix 7 Vulgarisms—Cockneyisms—Hibernianisms. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xiii, in Sunday Mag. Mar. 358/1 [He] had not caught up many cockneyisms instead. 1934 Times 24 Jan. 6/4 I was told by a high authority in philological matters that the Attic Greek ‘hippos’ was really a ‘Cockneyism,’ the dialect form ‘ikkos’ being more correct, as the Sanskrit root is unaspirated. 2012 London Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Features section) 40 A heavy brogue that occasionally veers into cockneyisms. b. The qualities or behaviour associated with Cockneys or with London; esp. the fact of speaking or writing in the Cockney accent or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > London > characteristics of cockneyism1808 Cockneydom1862 1808 J. Mackintosh Let. 28 Feb. in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. viii. 393 He speaks English as well as if he had been born in Middlesex, with the additional advantage of being free from cockneyism. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 53/2 [He] gets teachers of elocution and deportment to correct the worst of her Cockneyism. 2015 i (Nexis) 28 Aug. 38 Personally I'm quite partial to the actor's unreconstructed cockneyism. 2. Originally depreciative. The fact or status of belonging to the ‘Cockney school’ of writers (see Cockney school n. at cockney n. and adj. Compounds 2); writing or use of language characteristic of the Cockney school. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers > characteristic quality of cockneyism1818 Alexandrianism1822 Cockneydom1823 storm and stress1839 Sturm und Drang1857 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 197/2 You [sc. Leigh Hunt] become absorbed in your own identity,—motionless, mighty, and magnificent, in the pure calm of Cockneyism. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 373 His [sc. Leigh Hunt's] account of the meeting is a precious piece of cockneyism. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. xxiii. 187 The charge of Cockneyism frightened the booksellers. 1979 MLN 94 997 If we return to the early reviewers who named and defined the Cockneyism of Hunt and Keats, we find all of these qualities enumerated, and most of them deplored. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1804 |
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