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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of frenchify.
  • adjective ethnic slur, slang Having contracted a venereal disease.
  • adjective Having become more like the French.

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Examples

  • But Old French—used in Paris, and heard in the London court and in other “frenchified” quarters of England—would influence English as well.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • But Old French—used in Paris, and heard in the London court and in other “frenchified” quarters of England—would influence English as well.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In any event, when I acquired some rabbit at Wholey's, my thoughts turned to bistro type recipes for rabbit in a mustard sauce, and I went looking for a frenchified recipe, instead of some salt pork to drape over it, ala Ma Ingalls.

    Toast: Lindy 2006

  • In any event, when I acquired some rabbit at Wholey's, my thoughts turned to bistro type recipes for rabbit in a mustard sauce, and I went looking for a frenchified recipe, instead of some salt pork to drape over it, ala Ma Ingalls.

    "Preserved" Pears, Rabbit, and the Best Sauce Lindy 2006

  • I do like those Golden Delicious for the frenchified ones, though.

    Toast: Lindy 2007

  • I do like those Golden Delicious for the frenchified ones, though.

    See You Soon Lindy 2007

  • Ms. Lo frenchified it and made it luxurious with a finer dough and foie gras, but eating one of these liquid-filled parcels requires the same strategy as it did in Chinatown.

    Playing With Our Food 2007

  • *Obviously, a frenchified homage to Brando and his beloved Romanian wife, Alex.

    The Zetter Hotel 2005

  • *Obviously, a frenchified homage to Brando and his beloved Romanian wife, Alex.

    La Coquette: 2005

  • I do wonder whether "Old English" is a misnomer: surely the chage after the Conquest was so profound that it would be better to call the old tongue Anglo-Saxon, or something like that, and the new, simplified, part-frenchified tongue English, with a suitable adjective stuck on.

    languagehat.com: GODLESS LINGUISTICS. 2005

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  • To have contracted a venereal disease.

    December 9, 2008