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tartanize

tartanize verb: to make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.

Verb

tartanize (third-person singular simple present tartanizes, present participle tartanizing, simple past and past participle tartanized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.
    • Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.2010, Ian McKay, Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

Forms of tartanize

third-person singular presenttartanizes
present participletartanizing
past participletartanized
pasttartanized

Origin of tartanize

From tartan + -ize.

Questions about tartanize

What does tartanize mean?
Tartanize means to make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.
What part of speech is tartanize?
Tartanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tartanize?
The past tense of tartanize is tartanized.

Words near tartanize in the dictionary

  1. tartanes
  2. tartanilla
  3. tartanillas
  4. tartaning
  5. tartanization
  6. tartanize
  7. tartanized
  8. tartanizes
  9. tartanizing
  10. tartanned
  11. tartanry

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