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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cockneyfy.

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Examples

  • There Rice stumbles upon another self-pegged jumper, Griffin a ‘cockneyfied’ Jamie Bell, bringing a welcome touch of zest, who is a little less optimistic than his colleague.

    JUMPER | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • And the subdued murmur of voices, cockneyfied, countrified, cultivated, all commenting on flowers, formed a hum like that of bees, if not so pleasing.

    Flowering Wilderness 2004

  • Bedawi, form a quaint contrast with the genteel, nattily dressed, and cockneyfied brooms of Egypt and the Hejaz.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Gurgling up through the Hightalian hair -- though it do 'ave a cockneyfied sniff, --

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various

  • We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various

  • Quote Mr. Henry James about "the blistered _sentiers_ of asphalt, the rock-bound caverns, the huge iron bridges spanning little muddy lakes, the whole, crowded, cockneyfied place."

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • But in the porchway of the village inn -- called the "Well-diggers 'Arms" -- whatever they may be -- I surprised a cockneyfied groom in the act of kissing a maiden who, having a milk-pail in either hand, could not be expected to resist.

    Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • But it is all gone now, and the pert cockneyfied house stands up among the shrubberies and walnuts, surveying the ruins of what has been.

    At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • On we went; and the water had the familiar aspect to me of the days before Pangbourne had been thoroughly de-cockneyfied, as I have seen it.

    News from Nowhere 1892

  • Streatley, and so went our ways into what once would have been the deeper country under the foot-hills of the White Horse; and though the contrast between half-cockneyfied and wholly unsophisticated country existed no longer, a feeling of exultation rose within me (as it used to do) at sight of the familiar and still unchanged hills of the

    News from Nowhere 1892

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  • The place, as he approached it, seemed bright and breezy to him; his roamings had been neither far enough nor frequent enough to make the cockneyfied coast insipid.

    --Henry James, 1893, "Sir Dominick Ferrand", The Real Thing, and other tales, p. 88

    October 28, 2009