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cocknify

cocknify is the alternative form of cockneyfy.

Meaning of cockneyfy

Verb

cockneyfy (third-person singular simple present cockneyfies, present participle cockneyfying, simple past and past participle cockneyfied)

  1. (transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize.
    • There certainly are a set of John Bulls, both male and female, who would cockneyfy every spot on the globe they might visit — even the very pyramids...1837, William Rae Wilson, chapter IV, in Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home, page 65

Forms of cocknify

third-person singular presentcocknifies
present participlecocknifying
past participlecocknified
pastcocknified

Questions about cocknify

What is cocknify the alternative form of?
Cocknify is the alternative form of cockneyfy.

Words near cocknify in the dictionary

  1. Cockneyland
  2. cockneys
  3. cockneyship
  4. cocknified
  5. cocknifies
  6. cocknify
  7. cocknifying
  8. cocknobs
  9. cockocracy
  10. cockpaddle
  11. cockpit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cocknify (page history and authors); cockneyfy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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