exoticise

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verb

Non-Oxford British spelling of exoticize.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

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

present singular third person exoticises · participle present exoticising · participle past exoticised · past 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 the original on 29 Nov 2021

Origin

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APA

exoticise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exoticise

MLA

“exoticise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exoticise. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exoticise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exoticise.

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