tonified

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of tonify

comparative more tonified · superlative most tonified

1. Highly fashionable or stylish; classy; tony.

   That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two.

   2004, Lucia Pollock, Run, Annie, Run, →ISBN

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   You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.

   2011, Anne MacVicar Grant, J. P. Grant, Letters from the Mountains, →ISBN

   "A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is," said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.

   2015, Richard Baxter Townshend, Lone Pine : The Story of a Lost Mine

   Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read "Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong."

   2015, Cassidy Coal, A Mile High Romance: The Complete Collection, page 80

2. human sciencesrelying on tone as a determinant of meaning; tonal.

   The existence of such processes requires that Djuka be regarded as an incompletely tonified language with underlyingly specified H-tones.

   1989, Hubert Devonish, Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages, →ISBN

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   The accentual nature of H tones was said to be captured by this formal property not obtaining in “pure tone” languages with completely tonified underlying forms.

   1984, George N. Clements, J. Goldsmith, Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, →ISBN, page 75

   In fact, the claim is inherent in the H vs. ∅ underlying system that only languages that have this kind of opposition (as opposed to completely tonified underlying forms) will have globality.

   1985, D. L. Goyvaerts, African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, →ISBN, page 251