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exoticise

exoticise verb: non-Oxford British spelling of exoticize.

Verb

exoticise (third-person singular simple present exoticises, present participle exoticising, simple past and past participle exoticised)

  1. Non-Oxford British spelling of exoticize.
    • On the beach my very British daughter scoffed 'pek bateta[…], ending with jugu cake made with flour and unpeeled groundnuts, an exoticised Victorian sponge.2012 March 29, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, “Globe-trotting gastronomy: Sampling Zanzibar's culture melting pot of dishes”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Forms of exoticise

third-person singular presentexoticises
present participleexoticising
past participleexoticised
pastexoticised

Origin of exoticise

From exotic + -ise.

Questions about exoticise

What does exoticise mean?
Exoticise means non-Oxford British spelling of exoticize.
What part of speech is exoticise?
Exoticise is a verb.
What is the past tense of exoticise?
The past tense of exoticise is exoticised.

Words near exoticise in the dictionary

  1. exotical
  2. exotically
  3. exoticalness
  4. exoticisation
  5. exoticisations
  6. exoticise
  7. exoticised
  8. exoticises
  9. exoticising
  10. exoticism
  11. exoticisms

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