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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of frenchify.
- adjective ethnic slur, slang Having
contracted avenereal disease . - adjective Having
become more like theFrench .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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I do like those Golden Delicious for the frenchified ones, though.
Toast: Lindy 2007
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I do like those Golden Delicious for the frenchified ones, though.
See You Soon Lindy 2007
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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.
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*Obviously, a frenchified homage to Brando and his beloved Romanian wife, Alex.
The Zetter Hotel 2005
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*Obviously, a frenchified homage to Brando and his beloved Romanian wife, Alex.
La Coquette: 2005
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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.
yaybob commented on the word frenchified
To have contracted a venereal disease.
December 9, 2008