English

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, Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home, Chapter IV, p. 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, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXX,

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

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 2,

     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.