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Definition of Cockneyfying
1. cockneyfy [v] - See also: cockneyfy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockneyfying
Literary usage of Cockneyfying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"... and would not have breathed one word of my secret thoughts, though he had gone
on cockneyfying all antiquity; but when he invaded mine own territory, ..."
2. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"In the disastrous, dust-covered, cockneyfying parts my own feeling had something
of rage in it, rage and disgust. It was usually after nightfall when I got ..."
3. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Thomas Moore (1830)
"... Keats died at Home of the Quarterly Review Î I am •> err sorry for it, though
I think he took the wrong .me as a poet, and was spoilt by cockneyfying, ..."
4. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"Pray don't lot such an opportunity for cockneyfying a long oppressed country slip
by disregarded. Tremendous attraction! fancy crossing " the fields of ..."
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