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cockneyized

cockneyized is the simple past and past participle of cockneyize.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about cockneyized

What is cockneyized the simple past and past participle of?
Cockneyized is the simple past and past participle of cockneyize.

Words near cockneyized in the dictionary

  1. cockneyishly
  2. cockneyising
  3. cockneyism
  4. cockneyisms
  5. cockneyize
  6. cockneyized
  7. cockneyizes
  8. cockneyizing
  9. Cockneyland
  10. cockneys
  11. cockneyship

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