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 Henry James

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

But Loch Leven is too much cockneyfied by angling competitions; moreover, its pleasures are expensive. 

From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang

But just contrast this with a commonplace, and wholly uninteresting cockneyfied suburb such as that wherein my delectable lot is cast, and then think of the difference.”

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

But the Tower is very good—much less cockneyfied than I supposed it would seem to my maturer vision; very vast and grand, historical and romantic.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various