Cockneyize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cockneyize is a verb meaning To pronounce with a cockney accent.
Meaning
To pronounce with a cockney accent.
More Meanings
- To make vulgar and tasteless.
Example Sentences
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 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!
If the little history of Madison could not have been written without meddling with the caps and petticoats of its first ladies, and also selecting from the verdant brain of an old gray-headed idiot, trash concocted and cockneyized in London, then it had better ever remained a blank.
Word Forms
- cockneyizes
- cockneyizing
- cockneyized
- cockneyise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cockneyise, cockneyfy, cocknify, chanticleer, cuntify, knack.
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