cockneyism
/kok-nee-iz-uhm/US // ˈkɒk niˌɪz əm //UK // (ˈkɒknɪˌɪzəm) //
鸡婆主义,鸡汤主义,乡音,乡土主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : cockney quality or character.
- : a cockney peculiarity, as of speech.
Examples
Cockneyism charged against (see also Cockney School), 109 n.
Orson had bewildered them further by a sort of cockneyism of misappropriated letters.
It has colour, it is true English, unstained of Cockneyism and American.
Catullus in one of his epigrams ridicules the cockneyism of a person who said chommoda for commoda, and hinsidiae for insidiae.
But the self-complacency of Cockneyism is the most unshaken thing in this revolutionary age.
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