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Jamaicanize en · VERB

Etymology

From Jamaican + -ize.

Meanings

1. to make Jamaican.
   • And then I decided it was time for me to come home and to bring all that experience and to Jamaicanize it and I said if I come home I really want to promote art. 2001, Cari Lee Borja, Jamaican Art Worlds: Encounters, Transformations and Metamorphoses:
   • Today, Jamaican is spoken by about five million people, who manage to preserve it thanks to their ability to Jamaicanize English words and a positive attitude towards neologisms. 2017, Roberto Masone, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
   • Barclays Bank is the fourth foreign owned bank to Jamaicanize its operations. 1973, Caribbean and Central American Letter:

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