to transmogrify

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To change; to alter; to metamorphose. A low word. It is provincial in the North of England, and in Craven Districts.--Glossaries of Carr and Brockett.


Some friends of John's, who at him now

Had tuk a squint, they cried,

"Sen' John's kep comp'ny with that gal,

He's quite tranmogrified."--Essex Dialect, Noakes and Styles.

See social life and glee sit down

All joyous and unthinking,

Till quite transmogrifed they're grown,

Debauchery and drinking.--Burns.

I went to the calaboose to see my friend, Joe Head, and found him transmogrified into Mounsheer Tate.--Crockett, Tour, p. 146.

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