单词 | cockneyize |
释义 | cockneyizev.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (intransitive)] > use Cockneyisms cockneyize1821 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [verb (intransitive)] > London cockneyfy1820 cockneyize1821 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 264 The rest of the translation, and how he [sc. Leigh Hunt] cockneyized at the expence of Homer. 1839 W. Maginn in Fraser's Mag. 20 653 The sparks and wits..either Cockneyised in London, or confined themselves to the universities. 2. transitive. To make Cockney in character; = cockneyfy v. Now rare.In quot. 1823 with reference to the ‘Cockney school’ of writers: see note at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (transitive)] > make Cockney cockneyize1823 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 221 He allows Hazlitt..to Cockneyize the title of Gifford's poem into the ‘Barviad’. 1856 M. A. Power Evelyn Forester xxx. 212 Suburban holiday-folks have done their best to cockneyise and vulgarise it [sc. the inn]; they have strewed its garden with oyster-shell grottoes, and beer-stained tables. 1969 B. Cottle Triumph of Eng. i. 36 Since his [sc. Chaucer's] day, the Great Vowel Shift has wrenched and cockneyized our pure long vowels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1821 |
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