birminghamize
/ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, ch. Ⅴ – "Ability". “The manners and customs of society are artificial;—made-up men with made-up manners;—and thus the whole is Birminghamized, and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;—a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.”"
- "He has a relish for unfamiliar words, words of recent coinage or of his own make, or that closely similar type of words to which age has brought a second childhood... After this “Birminhamize” will be a mere peccadillo..."
- "“Full Home Rule, first through a powerful system of local government (Chamberlain’s proposal to "Birminghamize" Ireland), later through a wider, national self-government, inexorably became the only Liberal solution.”"
- "The colloquial form of the city’s name thus entered the language as a contemptuous epithet. In 1861 the word was used to describe “The vulgar dandy, strutting along, with his Brummajem jewellry”; to “Birminhamize” was “to artificialize.”"
- "The horticultural site where some ladies naturalize is here revealed as a site where, simultaneously, others birminghamize—a nineteenth-century synonym, the OED states, for "artificialize.""
- "In the 19th Century, the word Birmingham was used to mean artificial (the associated verb was birminghamize)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/
- British English: /ˈbɜː.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/