Bostonize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston. transitive

    "His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event."

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"His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event."

Etymology

From Boston + -ize.

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