v. Also cocknify. [f. as prec. + -FY.] trans. To imbue with cockney qualities, to render ‘cockney’; intr. to become ‘cockney.’ Hence Cockneyfied ppl. a., Cockneyfying ppl. a. and vbl. sb., Cockneyfication.
1821. Byron, Lett., 26 April. I think he [Keats] … was spoilt by Cockneyfying … and versifying Tooke’s Pantheon and Lempriere’s Dictionary.
1829. Mary Howitt, Lett., in Mem. Alaric Watts (1884), II. 5. Or Keats’ other writings I know nothing. I fancy them too fantastical, too cockneyfied, pardon the ugly word.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., III. 200. In the disastrous, dust-covered, cockneyfying parts.
1875. M. Collins, Th. in Garden (1880), II. v. 176. The grand old wood was rather cockneyfied … haunted by ponies, donkeys, and canaille.
