Scandinavianize
English edit
Etymology edit
From Scandinavian + -ize.
Verb edit
Scandinavianize (third-person singular simple present Scandinavianizes, present participle Scandinavianizing, simple past and past participle Scandinavianized)
- (transitive) To make (something) Scandinavian in character.
- 2000 December, Raphael Kadushin, quoting Allan Schultz, “A Copenhagen Christmas”, in Bon Appétit, volume 45, number 12, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 222:
- I may explore different influences, but I always Scandinavianize them and use Danish products: goose, prunes, cabbage, apples, pork, mushrooms.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “Scandinavianize, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
