townifiedadj.
/ˈtaʊnᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈtaʊnəˌfaɪd/ colloquial (frequently depreciative).
Reminiscent or characteristic of the town or town dwellers, esp. as opposed to the countryside or country dwellers.
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1777 A. Grant Let. 15 Mar. in Lett. from Mountains (1806) III. 11 You have no notion how townified folks are, in all these little garrisons.
1847 Bell's Life in London 27 June 8/3 A great brown van..came grinding up to the door, driven by a man with a townified air.
1880 Sunday Mag. 9 434/1 It was a nasty little townified village, where all the folks were poor and proud and contemptible.
1906 Academy 15 Dec. 602/1 Besides writing curious little townified poems about green fields, it builds curious little townified cottages in them.
1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles x. 117 I'd probably have to take another bus to get out of townified parts.
1998 Times 18 Apr. (Weekend section) 12/6 I find it interesting that hunting should be struggling to get away from its traditional roots and re-invent itself as a less straightforward and more townified sport.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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