cockneyfy

American  

[kok-ni-fahy] / ˈkɒk nɪˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

cockneyfied, cockneyfying

1. to give a cockney character to.

   to cockneyfy the word “horse” by pronouncing it “ 'orse.”

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cockneyfy British  

/ ˈkɒknɪˌfaɪ /

verb

1. (tr) to cause (one's speech, manners, etc) to fit the stereotyped idea of a cockney

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Other Word Forms

• cockneyfication
  noun

Etymology

Origin of cockneyfy

First recorded in 1815–25; cockney + -fy

Example Sentences

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cockneyfied

The bowers and boskages stretched behind them, the artificial lakes and cockneyfied landscapes, making all the region bright with the sense of air and space, and raw natural tints, and vegetation too diminutive to overshadow.

From The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by James, Henry

Quote Mr. Henry James about "the blistered sentiers of asphalt, the rock-bound caverns, the huge iron bridges spanning little muddy lakes, the whole, crowded, cockneyfied place."

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

Loch Leven, then, is crowded and cockneyfied by competitions; it has also no great name for beauty of landscape. 

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew

I sold him to a cockneyfied, countryfied sort of a man, who said he had a small "hindependence of his own"—somewhere, I believe, about London.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

The only very definite conviction I arrived at was that Vaucluse is indeed cockneyfied, but that I should have been a fool, all the same, not to come.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry