A cant used by Cockneys in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyming word or phrase, this word or phrase then often being abbreviated to its first syllable or syllables, or its first word. The word chosen as the rhyme often shares attributes of the word that it replaces.

simple past tense and past participle of cockneyfy

present participle of cockneyfy

(nonce word) Something characteristically cockney; a cockneyism.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cockneyfy

(transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize.

The characteristics, manners, or dialect of a Cockney. / A Cockney phrase or idiom.

plural of cockneyism

the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys

plural of cockneyfication