Bostonize

present singular third person Bostonizes · participle present Bostonizing · participle past Bostonized · past Bostonized

1. transitiveTo make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston.

   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.

   1972, Grant Cochran Knight, American literature and culture, page 374

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   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.

   1981, Harold Earle Johnson, Hallelujah, amen!