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cockneyfy

verb

Etymology

From cockney + -fy.

  1. derived from cokeney
  2. inherited from cokenay
  3. suffixed as cockneyfy — “cockney + fy”

Definitions

  1. To make cockney

    To make cockney; to vulgarize.

    • There certainly are a set of John Bulls, both male and female, who would cockneyfy every spot on the globe they might visit — even the very pyramids...
    • Bozo had a strange way of talking, Cockneyfied and yet very lucid and expressive.
    • This first hint of shyness and shame, and the irony that tried to cover it, cockneyfied and West Indian too, made Nick want to jump on him and kiss him.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA