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Portuguesify

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Etymology

From Portuguese + -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.

Verb

Portuguesify (third-person singular simple present Portuguesifies, present participle Portuguesifying, simple past and past participle Portuguesified)

  1. (transitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    Traders and governors attempted to Portuguesify Goa and Macao for centuries... You can Portuguesify Castilian Spanish easily enough...
  2. (intransitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
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