"Bostonize" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Boston + -ize",
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  "etymology_text": "Boston + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bostonizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "Bostonize (third-person singular simple present Bostonizes, present participle Bostonizing, simple past and past participle Bostonized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Grant Cochran Knight, American literature and culture, page 374",
          "text": "His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Harold Earle Johnson, Hallelujah, amen!",
          "text": "President Upham delivered a lengthy speech which covered the entire history of the Society along with some Puritanical sniffing. There was regret that, in stating that the Festival was for all America, he should Bostonize the affair so irritatingly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Bostonian",
          "Bostonian"
        ],
        [
          "Boston",
          "Boston"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Bostonization"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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  "word": "Bostonize"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Boston",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Boston + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Boston + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bostonizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bostonized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Bostonize (third-person singular simple present Bostonizes, present participle Bostonizing, simple past and past participle Bostonized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Bostonization"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Grant Cochran Knight, American literature and culture, page 374",
          "text": "His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Harold Earle Johnson, Hallelujah, amen!",
          "text": "President Upham delivered a lengthy speech which covered the entire history of the Society along with some Puritanical sniffing. There was regret that, in stating that the Festival was for all America, he should Bostonize the affair so irritatingly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bostonian",
          "Bostonian"
        ],
        [
          "Boston",
          "Boston"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "Bostonize"
}