countrified
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]countrified (comparative more countrified, superlative most countrified)
- Rural, rustic; unsophisticated.
- 1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:
- Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 143:
- There was this hot little countrified sistah who had caught my eye during the beginning of freshman year, but I just hadn't had a chance to work my way around to her yet.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:
- Westbourne Park [station] is also countrified, with valanced canopies and fancy ironwork (which is painted a dingy yellow).
- Having the characteristics of country music.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 269:
- Over the next couple of years, a few more countrified albums appeared, and to more singles—"Tarkio Road" (#55, 1971) and "Shake Off The Demons (#98, 1972)—won positions on the Hot 100.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]countrified
- simple past and past participle of countrify
References
[edit]- “countrified”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.