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

See Examples For:

cockneyfied

Until this year no steamers had ever cockneyfied its secluded waters.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord

No; I told you it was villafied and cockneyfied.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew

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

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