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Vulgarize vs Cockneyfy - What's the difference?

vulgarize | cockneyfy |

As verbs the difference between vulgarize and cockneyfy

is that vulgarize is to express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner; to make something commonplace; to make something vulgar while cockneyfy is to make cockney; to vulgarize.

vulgarize

English

Alternative forms

* vulgarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner; to make something commonplace; to make something vulgar.
  • *1915: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=751091324&tag=Woolf,+Virginia,+1882-1941:+The+Voyage+Out,+1915&query=+vulgarise&id=WooVoya]
  • *:"Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued, "the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."

    • Synonyms

    *debase *dumb down

    Antonyms

    *ennoble ----

    cockneyfy

    English

    Verb

  • To make cockney; to vulgarize.
  • * 1837 , William Rae Wilson, Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home
    • 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...