cockneycality
English
editEtymology
editFrom cockney + -c- + -ality.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏknĭkăʹlĭtĭ, IPA(key): /kɒknɪˈkælɪtɪ/
Noun
editcockneycality (plural cockneycalities)
- (nonce word) Something characteristically cockney; a cockneyism.
- 1834–1835: Jane Welsh Carlyle, Early Letters, page 263 (published in 1889)
- Fragments of Haddington, of Comely Bank, of Craigenputtoch interweaved with cockneycalities into a very habitable whole.
- 1834–1835: Jane Welsh Carlyle, Early Letters, page 263 (published in 1889)
References
edit- “cockneyˈcality” defined as a derived term of “cockney, n. (a.)”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]