Definition of Cockneyfy
1. v. t. To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
Definition of Cockneyfy
1. Verb. (transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockneyfy
1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockneyfy
Literary usage of Cockneyfy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Style in Public Discourse with Special Reference to the Usages of by Austin Phelps (1883)
"... chiefly, by the unauthorized prefix "un" to words, which, either in part or
in whole, are in good use. I find, also, " cockneyfy," ..."
2. St. Petersburgh: A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1829)
"... under hypochondriac diseases, and a sorry state of the digestive organs: go
not, in the summer, to Brighton or Eastbourne—neither cockneyfy yourselves ..."
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