cockneyize
verbEtymology
From cockney + -ize.
Definitions
To pronounce with a cockney accent.
- The cockneyized form of Bethlehem, "Bedlam," has long been an accepted and significant word in our vocabulary.
- It is a great pity that an excellent dictionary should be used to cockneyize the already bad pronunciation in use in this country.
To make vulgar and tasteless.
- To sing such great statesmen and morals so pure, His first bard is Bowring—the second Tom Moore; Leigh Hunt was refused, as a cockneyized calf, And Rogers, for being too comic by half!
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA