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citify, v. colloq.|ˈsɪtɪfaɪ|
Also cityfy.
[f. city + -fy. Cf. countryfy, churchify, etc.]
trans. To make city-like, to stamp or mark with the characteristics of a city. Esp. ˈcitified ppl. a.
1828Yankee & Boston Lit. Gaz. 16 July I. 227 There is a deal more comfort in playing with a country lass..than with a cityfied girl. 1849F. A. Buck Let. 31 Oct. (1930) 53 People look much more dressed here than up the river: more cityfied. 1862Temple Bar VI. 190 The country population is..becoming citified. 1865Atlantic Monthly XV. 501 I'd take an' citify my English. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer i. 7 He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals. 1883E. M. Bacon Dict. Boston (Mass.) 138 Attempts have been made to give the Common a more citified name. 1884Cassell's Fam. Mag. 238/2 Every one looks more or less ‘cityfied’. 1916‘D. Grayson’ Adv. in Contentment ii, I was ‘citified’, Horace said; and ‘citified’ with us here in the country is nearly the limit of invective. 1919W. Hutchinson Doctor in War i. 4 The highly citified and alleged ‘neurotic’ Cockney. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality 86 It is now a more cityfied, sensible, less romantic and picturesque court. 1945F. Stark East is West xxvi. 185 Taken by his son..who looked like a slighter and citified version of his father. |