单词 | cockneyfy |
释义 | cockneyfyv. transitive. To make into a Cockney; to give a Cockney character to; esp. to pronounce with a Cockney accent, to put into the Cockney dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [verb (intransitive)] > London cockneyfy1820 cockneyize1821 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [verb (transitive)] > London cockneyfy1820 cockney1873 1820 [implied in: Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 224/2 The great weight of the bells [i.e. Bow Bells], and the tremendous shaking it [sc. the church spire] must have undergone (when these cockneyfying instruments were in almost continual motion). (at cockneyfying adj.)]. 1828 A. B. Granville St. Petersburgh I. iv. 122 Go not, in the summer, to Brighton or Eastbourne—neither cockneyfy yourselves in the Isle of Thanet with aldermen's wives and their rubicund children. 1866 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 403 The only ostensibly Scotch story is that of ‘The Widow Mysie,’ and this poem..reads like Burns cockneyfied. 2007 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Editorial & Opinion section) 40 Toss in a touch more sentiment and cockneyfy the speech and that could be one of Dickens's orphaned crossing-sweepers speaking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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