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American cockneys. New York is called satirically Gotham.
“Such things as would strike … a stranger in our beloved Gotham, and places to which our regular Gothamites (American cockneys) are wont to repair.”—Fraser’s Magazine: Sketches of American Society.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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