| 释义 |
townify, v. colloq.|ˈtaʊnɪfaɪ|
[f. town n. + -ify.]
trans. To render town-like, or characteristic of the town. Hence ˈtownified ppl. a.
1777A. Grant Lett. fr. Mount. (1813) II. ii. 10 You have no notion how townified folks are, in all these little garrisons. 1881A. Strettell in Macm. Mag. XLV. 120 This encircling grandeur will prevent it from ever getting a townified air. 1906Academy 15 Dec. 602/1 Besides writing curious little townified poems about green fields, it builds curious little townified cottages in them. |