Jamaicanize

English

Etymology

Jamaican +‎ -ize

Verb

Jamaicanize (third-person singular simple present Jamaicanizes, present participle Jamaicanizing, simple past and past participle Jamaicanized)

1. to make Jamaican.
   • 1973, Caribbean and Central American Letter:

     Barclays Bank is the fourth foreign owned bank to Jamaicanize its operations.

   • 2001, Cari Lee Borja, Jamaican Art Worlds: Encounters, Transformations and Metamorphoses:

     And then I decided it was time for me to come home and to bring all that experience and to Jamaicanize it and I said if I come home I really want to promote art.

   • 2017, Roberto Masone, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:

     Today, Jamaican is spoken by about five million people, who manage to preserve it thanks to their ability to Jamaicanize English words and a positive attitude towards neologisms.