cockneyize

Verb

cockneyize (third-person singular simple present cockneyizes, present participle cockneyizing, simple past and past participle cockneyized)

1. To pronounce with a cockney accent.
   • After some sensible remarks to the effect that, before a word beginning with an aspirated “h,” (“heroic,” “harangue,” and “historical,” for instance,) “a” should be used, and not “an,” unless you choose to cockneyize and weaken the aspiration of your “h's,” it is declared that we should avoid the...1882 January, “The Right and the Wrong Use of Words”, in The American, volume 3, number 76, page 234
   • The cockneyized form of Bethlehem, "Bedlam," has long been an accepted and significant word in our vocabulary.1887, Charles Augustus Chase, Some Great Charitable Trusts of Great Britain, page 41
2. To make vulgar and tasteless.
   • To sing such great statesmen and morals so pure, His first bard is Bowring—the second Tom Moore; Leigh Hunt was refused, as a cockneyized calf, And Rogers, for being too comic by half!1849, Theodore Edward Hook, Richard Harris Dalton Barham, The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook - Volume 2, page 33
   • If the little history of Madison could not have been written without meddling with the caps and petticoats of its first ladies, and also selecting from the verdant brain of an old gray-headed idiot, trash concocted and cockneyized in London, then it had better ever remained a blank.1872, Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, page 352