bourgeoisify

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English

Etymology

From bourgeois +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔː(ɹ)ʒˈwɑːzifaɪ/, /bʊə(ɹ)ʒˈwɑːzifaɪ/

Verb

bourgeoisify (third-person singular simple present bourgeoisifies, present participle bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle bourgeoisified)

  1. (transitive) To make bourgeois.
    • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter V, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
      The workers' militias and police-forces must be preserved in their present form and every effort to "bourgeoisify" them must be resisted.
    • 2002, Heiko Haumann, A History of East European Jews, translated by James Patterson, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, Part III, p. 142
      For women from 'bourgeoisified' families, the crisis afflicting how they had always seen themselves increasingly manifested itself in minor ailments, sickness, and emotional upset.
    • 2005, James Booth, chapter 3, in Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight, Palgrave Macmillan, page 69:
      Larkin's contribution to the genre playfully bourgeoisifies the aristocratic conventions […]

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