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countryfy

countryfy is the alternative spelling of countrify.

Meaning of countrify

Verb

countrify (third-person singular simple present countrifies, present participle countrifying, simple past and past participle countrified)

  1. (transitive) 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....
    Antonyms:
    citify
  2. (especially, transitive) To make more like country music.

Forms of countryfy

third-person singular presentcountryfies
present participlecountryfying
past participlecountryfied
pastcountryfied

Questions about countryfy

What is countryfy the alternative spelling of?
Countryfy is the alternative spelling of countrify.

Words near countryfy in the dictionary

  1. countryfies
  2. countryfolk
  3. countryfolks
  4. countryful
  5. countryfuls
  6. countryfy
  7. countryfying
  8. countryhood
  9. countryhuman
  10. countryhumans
  11. countryish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countryfy (page history and authors); countrify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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