a. [f. COCKNEY sb. + -ISH.] Savoring of the cockney.
1819. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 74/1. A balloon … but there is something Cockneyish even in that object.
1870. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), II. 302. My new acquaintance, who was very cockneyish.
Hence Cockneyishly adv.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 286/2. We think we hear (to speak cockneyishly) some God-bless-my-soul-good-sort-of-body say [etc.].
