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cockneyfy en · VERB

Etymology

From cockney + -fy.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize.
   • 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. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
   • 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... 1837, William Rae Wilson, chapter IV, in Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home, page 65:
   • Bozo had a strange way of talking, Cockneyfied and yet very lucid and expressive. 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

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