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单词 creolize
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creolizev.

Brit. /ˈkriːəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkriəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– creolise, 1800s– creolize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Creole n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < Creole n. + -ize suffix. Compare French créoliser (18th cent. in sense ‘to adapt to a new environment or to a colonized country’, early 19th cent. or earlier in sense 1). With senses 2 and 3 compare earlier creolized adj. 1, creolized adj. 2.
1. intransitive. To lounge in the manner of a person living in a warm climate. Obsolete.
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.
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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.
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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).
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