Cockneydom
English
Etymology
From Cockney + -dom.
Noun
Cockneydom (uncountable)
- The home or region of Cockneys; Cockneys collectively.
- 1850, “The Lord Mayor in Ireland”, in The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities (2nd Series), London: John Camden Hotten, […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford and Co., OCLC 977496572, page 316:
- Then to win the hearts of his new subjects the King of Cockneydom would, doubtlessly, have spoken in the richest brogue he could manage.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Cockneydom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)