Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) gin or brandy and soda water.

1865

Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 12/2: The following morning, after a Cockney breakfast (gin and soda water,) Joe and I took a stroll in the Park. [Ibid.] 124/2: Folkstone and I ‘put away’ a Cockney breakfast — soda water and brandy.

a badly minted guinea.

1804

Sporting Mag. Jan. XXIII 189/1: Some of the croupiers [...] called every rough guinea a cockney counter.

London.

1818		Edinburgh Rev. Nov. 207: Our readers may try their skill on a few stanzas of the description of Cockney-land, which we print from Doctor Pipino’s Anthology.
1825		C.M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I 185: Of Cockney Land, its breadth and length, / Houses, inhabitants, and strength.
1833		Leicester Chron. 9 Feb. 3/4: They had, he stated (in the dialect of Cockney-land) taken in the public houses two lawses —sweethearts like (with a knowing wink).
1844		Westmorland Gaz. 9 Nov. 2/2: Old ‘father of fogs’ (November this season has issued himself into ‘Cockneyland’ in his true character.
1851		Bath Chron. 10 Apr. 3/2: Bath is expected to benefit [...] by the influx of strangers into Cockneyland [...] for the time of the [Great] Exhibition.
1864		Leeds Intelligencer 23 Jan. 14/6: Since his return to Cockneyland, the humorous scribe has amused us with [etc.].
1875		Dundee Courier 22 Dec. 3/5: You are free from the enormous mass of tourists who come [...] especially from Cockneyland, as they tell you, ‘to do the Highlands’.
1884		Liverpool Mercury 30 Oct. 7/6: Friday night’s train will doubtless bring a strong contingent to represent Cockneyland.
1894		Leeds Mercury 28 July 12/2: Only once did I go down to Oxford to attend a dinner at the Palmerston Club; but I came back to Cockneyland the next morning.
1902		Edinburgh Eve. News 11 Aug. 2/7: He has yet to learn how well-behaved an Edinburgh gathering is compared to the excitable mobs of Cockney-land.
1921		Yorks. Eve. Post 21 Jan. 7/4: It is very rarely that you find any ‘thrilling rescue’ fires outside Cockneyland.
1947		Derby Daily Teleg. 9 Sept. 4/1: Set in the saloon bar of the ‘Cap and Bells’, right in the heart of ‘Cockneyland’.
2003		(con. 1940) W. Woodruff Beyond Nab End 288: Recruits from Cockneyland came back from leave mourning their dead.

London; also attrib.

1796		J.C. Cross Parnassian Bagatelles 60: He gabb’d, and he chatter’d his cockneyshire blarney, / Bade me and my brogue to the devil go roam.
1809		‘Marmaduke Markwell’ Advice to Sportsmen 62: Spectacles are very necessary to be used, though the game should be within three yards of you; accidents have happened to Cockneyshire gentlemen.
1814		C. Dibdin Farmer’s Wife I:v: Robin. And, pray, now, where might Mr. Peter he born? Susan. In delightful London! Robin. What, Middlesex to wit? Cockneyshire?
1829		Morn. Post (London) 7 July 2/4: His accent was a mongrel cur — half Blackpool and half Cockneyshire.
1833		Hereford Jrnl 18 Sept. 3/5: A corpulent lady of Cockneyshire, [...] a sort of female Falstaff.
1846		Hants. Advertiser 11 Apr. 3/2: The pleasure harden [...] reminds us of early times in the suburbs of Cockneyshire.
1858		Chester Chron. 6 Nov. 8/3: We now and then hear of a ‘countryman’ being done tolerably brown when he gets amongst the folks in Cockneyshire.
1867		Notts. Guardian 15 Mar. 8/5: A young fellow, who evidently came from ‘Cockneyshire,’ was brought up in custody.
1889–90		Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant I 260/1: Cockneyshire (tailors) London.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues II 143/1: Cockney-Shire [...] London.

breakfast in bed and using the pot for defecation, rather than leaving the warm house for a trip to the outdoor privy.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 235/1: late C.19–20.