单词 | creolize |
释义 | creolizev.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1802 M. Nugent Jrnl. 10 Sept. (1907) 155 After breakfast, the usual routine; writing, reading, and creolizing. 1817 J. McLeod Narr. Voy. Alceste 247 The ladies..generally creolize the whole day in a delectable state of apathy. [Note: Creolizing is an easy and elegant mode of lounging in a warm climate;..that is, reclining back in one arm-chair, with their feet upon another, and sometimes upon the table.] 1868 M. Reid Now or Never xvii. 77 I..was surprised at finding him ‘creolizing’ on the plantation. 2. transitive. To make characteristic of Creole people; to provide with any of various attributes, characteristics, or values associated with Creoles, their culture, cuisine, etc., esp. by a process of naturalization or hybridization. Also: to cause (a person) to become a Creole, by relocation to a colonized country; to cause (a national or ethnic group) to become composed of Creoles, over the course of successive generations. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > national of a country > [verb (transitive)] > creolize creolize1833 1833 A. C. Carmichael Domest. Manners W. Indies I. xxv. 316 After the first rainy season is over, and one is ‘creolized’, almost any dress may be worn, with attention to ordinary precautions. 1848 tr. F. Chateaubriand Memoirs I. ii. 300 The language of the great English writers has been creolised [Fr. s'est creolisée], provincialised, and barbarised. 1869 Proc. Sci. Assoc. Trinidad 1 398 La Vaca Bay..is now creolised generally into La Vache. 1902 Rep. Comptroller of Customs 1901–02 7 It is reasonable to suppose that as these people become gradually creolised their taste for these foreign articles will be less in evidence. 1988 K. Moses in E. Saft Trinidad & Tobago 251 Like some Indian dishes, many Chinese foods have been ‘creolized’. 1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art i. 18 These ideas and goods..are creolized and reinvented in an African cultural setting which is distinctively different from the European one from which they originated. 3. transitive. Linguistics. To cause (a language, a pidgin, etc.) to develop into a creole (Creole n. 2b); to apply the features of a creole to. Also intransitive: to develop into a creole. Cf. earlier creolized adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [verb (transitive)] > create creole or pidgin pidginize1921 creolize1958 1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics xlix. 423 An artificial language..can be creolized. 1964 Eng. Stud. 45 383 The English dialects were never creolized. 1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) ii. 43 A pidgin may evolve into a creole..when children born into pidgin-speaking communities begin to develop (or ‘creolize’) their linguistic inheritance. 2010 R. L. Jackson Encycl. Identity I. 582/1 An intricate and enduring pidgin may never creolize. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1802 |
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