Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make French in character or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make French; infect with French tastes, manners, or turns of expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make (something) more
French inappearance orcharacter . - verb : (
intransitive ) To become more French.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make French in appearance or character
- verb become French in appearance or character
Etymologies
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Examples
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As it develops the idea is to "Frenchify" the village.
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January 8th, 2009 at 4: 12 pm not giving in to the temptation to Frenchify the English Language
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Could this be an ominous sign for Barack Obama denoting the fate of his egalitarian plans to Europeanize and Frenchify our capitalist country and make everything green?
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As individuals, families, and whole communities emigrate, they bring with them their eating habits and traditions, yet over time must and do change ( "Americanize", "Frenchify") their cuisine, adapting to available ingredients, modernizing to fit a new lifestyle.
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In France the name is Les Jouets C'est Nous, but customers Frenchify the English roughly as "toiyz air uze."
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In Spain, a spokesman for a coalition of truckdrivers, farmers, fishermen and taxi drivers threatened to "Frenchify the conflict."
Fuel And Fury 2008
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In France the name is Les Jouets C'est Nous, but customers Frenchify the English roughly as "toiyz air uze."
The World 2008
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When I slip into ‘English pronunciation mode’ halfway through a phrase, people sometimes get confused, so I tend to chicken out and Frenchify the thing.
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Frenchify themselves; the only things yet wanting are bags and swords, with which at least I have seen no one walking publicly, but I am told they are worn at court.
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"My husband," she said, "Mr. Pownal, tries to Frenchify me a little, sometimes, and I am obliged to indulge him, he is generally so good; but he will never succeed in making anything else out of me than a plain Yankee woman."
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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