Portuguesify

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From Portuguese +‎ -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.

Portuguesify (third-person singular simple present Portuguesifies, present participle Portuguesifying, simple past and past participle Portuguesified)

(transitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Traders and governors attempted to Portuguesify Goa and Macao for centuries... You can Portuguesify Castilian Spanish easily enough...
(intransitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.