chameleonize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To change colour or turn various colours

   To change colour or turn various colours; to be transformed (to suit changing circumstances).

   • King by your leaue, for in your kingſhippe I muſt leaue you, and repeate how from white to redde you camelionized.
   • I care nothing for the plaudits of the populace. I’m ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people—the things—that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically.
2. 2

   To cause to change colour or turn various colours

   To cause to change colour or turn various colours; to transform (to suit changing circumstances).

3. 3

   To transform oneself, as if changing colour like a chameleon.

   • 1941, Radio Showmanship, Minneapolis, MN: Showmanship Publications, February, 1941, p. 67, Morn Patrol originator Al Bland authors all the comedy patter, chameleonizes himself into a blackface character, “Mose.”

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