"Birminghamize" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Birmingham",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Birmingham + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Attested since 1856, from Birmingham + -ize. From the English city being known for cheap knock-off goods. Coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Birminghamizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Birminghamize (third-person singular simple present Birminghamizes, present participle Birminghamizing, simple past and past participle Birminghamized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, ch. Ⅴ – \"Ability\".\n“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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Michael W. Doyle, Empires, Cornell University Press, page 292",
          "text": "“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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make ersatz"
      ],
      "id": "en-Birminghamize-en-verb-lu2x9A9P",
      "links": [
        [
          "ersatz",
          "ersatz"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make ersatz"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "brummagem"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "non-Oxford British spelling",
          "word": "Birminghamise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Birminghamize"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Birmingham",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Birmingham + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Attested since 1856, from Birmingham + -ize. From the English city being known for cheap knock-off goods. Coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Birminghamizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Birminghamized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Birminghamize (third-person singular simple present Birminghamizes, present participle Birminghamizing, simple past and past participle Birminghamized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "brummagem"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, ch. Ⅴ – \"Ability\".\n“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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Michael W. Doyle, Empires, Cornell University Press, page 292",
          "text": "“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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make ersatz"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ersatz",
          "ersatz"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make ersatz"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əmaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "non-Oxford British spelling",
      "word": "Birminghamise"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Birminghamize"
}