countrify
verbUK /ˈkʌn.tɹɪ.fʌɪ/ · US /ˈkən.tɹəˌfaɪ/
Etymology From country + -fy.
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To make rural or rustic.
- LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me.1759, James Townley, High Life below Stairs. A Farce of Two Acts. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, 3rd edition, London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; R. Bailye, at Litchfield; J. Leake and W. Frederick, at Bath; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and S. Stabler, at York, →OCLC, page 7:
- This tendency to move away from crowded centers of population, with their congested apartment life, to the country and small towns where the laborer and his family may have cheap breathing space—in other words, this countrifying of industries—is growing more and more evident.1916, Albert Shaw, editor, The American Review of Reviews, volume 54, New York, N.Y.: Review of Reviews, →OCLC, page 69:
1 more example
- Even whitebread folk-rockers like the Byrds were, thanks to Gram Parsons, countrifying soul hits like "You Don't Miss Your Water."2004, Gene Santoro, “Buffalo Springfield”, in Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 183:
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Especially, Of a cover version To make more like country music.
- Related terms
- countryish, countrylike, go country