shortify

English

Etymology

From short +‎ -ify.

Verb

shortify (third-person singular simple present shortifies, present participle shortifying, simple past and past participle shortified)

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of shorten
   • 2008 September 9, Trika Harms zum Spreckel, I Quant It All! (or, TKs for VS2008 exams):

     But when I commenced my taunting, I accidentally said "Why do you guys have to shortify everything?" and since, last I heard, shortify isn't much of a word either, I've lost a little of my moxie.

   • 2017 February 15, honorary pie, Re: TTF Shorty R-10:

     is there anything you won't shortify?

   • 2018 January 20, Andrei Druzhinin, Strictly homotopy invariance of Nisnevich sheaves with GW-transfers:

     We denote ${\mathit {Coh}}(X)={\mathit {Coh}}_{X}$ the category of coherent sheaves on a scheme $X$, for any scheme $X$ (not only affine) to shortify denotations.

   • 2020: Nikolai Avdeev, synopsis of the shortmathj LaTeX package 0.5.0, 2020-03-18

     Automatically shortify titles of mathematical journals

Anagrams

• fortyish