cockneyfy

English

Etymology

From cockney +‎ -fy.

Verb

cockneyfy (third-person singular simple present cockneyfies, present participle cockneyfying, simple past and past participle cockneyfied)

1. (transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize.
   • 1837, William Rae Wilson, chapter IV, in Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home, page 65:

     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...

   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     Bozo had a strange way of talking, Cockneyfied and yet very lucid and expressive.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.