v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To make ‘cockney,’ give a cockney character to.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIV. 221. He allows Hazlitt … to Cockneyize the title of Gifford’s poem into the ‘Barviad.’
2. intr. To play or act the cockney; to use cockneyisms.
1821. Blackw. Mag., IX. 264. The rest of the translation, and how he cockneyized at the expence of Homer.
1839. Maginn, in Fraser’s Mag., XX. 653. The sparks and wits … either Cockneyised in London, or confined themselves to the universities.
