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

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Etymology

Origin of cockneyfy

First recorded in 1815–25; cockney + -fy

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cockneyfied

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 Henry James

The place, as he approached it, seemed bright and breezy to him; his roamings had been neither far enough nor frequent enough to make the cockneyfied coast insipid.

From Sir Dominick Ferrand by Henry James

The loch has a name for being cockneyfied, beset by whole fleets of competitive anglers from various angling clubs in Scotland. 

From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang

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

From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang

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 Robert Smith Surtees

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