bourgeoisify
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bourgeoisify (third-person singular simple present bourgeoisifies, present participle bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle bourgeoisified)
- (transitive) To make bourgeois.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter V, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- The workers' militias and police-forces must be preserved in their present form and every effort to "bourgeoisify" them must be resisted.
- 2002, Heiko Haumann, A History of East European Jews, translated by James Patterson, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, Part III, p. 142
- For women from 'bourgeoisified' families, the crisis afflicting how they had always seen themselves increasingly manifested itself in minor ailments, sickness, and emotional upset.
- 2005, James Booth, chapter 3, in Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight, Palgrave Macmillan, page 69:
- Larkin's contribution to the genre playfully bourgeoisifies the aristocratic conventions […]
Antonyms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to make bourgeois
|