[f. COCKNEY sb. + -DOM.]
1. The domain of cockneys (or of the ‘cockney school’ of literature); cockneys collectively.
1830. Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 390. The divine right of King of Cockneydom.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 332. Young Cockneydom was a different thing, however, from old Cockneydom.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., III. 88. Cockneydom unchained.
2. Cockney influence or characteristics.
1862. Mrs. Speid, Last Years Ind., 113. In these days of all pervading cockneydom.
