cockneyise

English

Verb

cockneyise (third-person singular simple present cockneyises, present participle cockneyising, simple past and past participle cockneyised)

1. Alternative form of cockneyize
   • 1843, Henry Wood, Change for the American Notes: In Letters from London to New York, page 83:

     How the poor chief of the Choctaw Indians mistook, when he complimented Boz on the skill with which he could portray the red men of the forest if he thought fit to attempt it! I hope, and indeed feel sure, Mr. Dickens will not — he would cockneyise them.

   • 1856, Marguerite A. Power, Evelyn Forester: a woman's story, page 212:

     Suburban holiday-folks have done their best to cockneyise and vulgarise it ; they have strewed its garden with oyster-shell grottoes, and beer-stained tables ; and on Sundays and holidays they go there to eat and drink, and smoke, and dance, and make love to their hearts' content.

   • 1954, The Gramophone - Volume 32, Issue 1, page vi:

     I noted with more than a little regret a tendency to " pinch " in the higher notes and surely with such a voie? after pronouncing the word " days " in " Golden Days " correctly throughout the song there should be no need to "cockneyise" the vowel on the last high note.