单词 | cockneyfying |
释义 | cockneyfyingn. rare. The action or process of becoming Cockney in character, or of making something Cockney in character. Cf. cockneyfication n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > making Cockney cockneyfying1821 cockneyfication1867 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Apr. (1978) VIII. 102 I think he [sc. Keats] took the wrong line as a poet—and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and Suburbing—and versifying Tooke's Pantheon and Lempriere's Dictionary. 1895 J. L. W. Page Coasts of Devon & Lundy Island 103 The inevitable cockneyfying which everywhere, nowadays, overtakes the fashionable watering place. 1975 N.Y. Mag. 27 Oct. 76/3 Their cockneyfying of words well beyond their ken. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cockneyfyingadj. rare. That makes a person a Cockney; (also) becoming Cockney. ΚΠ 1820 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). a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 200 In the disastrous, dust-covered, cockneyfying parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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