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From Portuguese +‎ -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.

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Portuguesify (third-person singular simple present Portuguesifies, present participle Portuguesifying, simple past and past participle Portuguesified)

  1. (transitive, rare) 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...
  2. (intransitive, rare) 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.

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