What does betterfy mean?
Betterfy means (transitive, US, slang, rare, nonstandard) to make better.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, US, slang, rare, nonstandard) to make better.
The kind-hearted Clio encouraged her hopes, and recounted sundry histories which she had heard from their forest customers, of the betterfying effects of the handsome locations round Natchez.
And so the citizens of Fort Wayne desiring to “beautify and betterfy” their home town looked about for a leader and found one in Prof. Charles Zueblin, a civic evangelist who had stirred Grand Rapids in a somewhat similar movement about a year before.
You betterfy me, angel.
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Betterfy means (transitive, US, slang, rare, nonstandard) to make better.
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The kind-hearted Clio encouraged her hopes, and recounted sundry histories which she had heard from their forest customers, of the betterfying effects of the handsome locations round Natchez.
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