Portuguesify.
Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Meaning & usage
Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Traders and governors attempted to Portuguesify Goa and Macao for centuries... You can Portuguesify Castilian Spanish easily enough...
Synonym of lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
Where this word comes from
From Portuguese + -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.
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