Pronunciation Verb
french (frenches, present participle frenching; past and past participle frenched)
- (transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
- (transitive) To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
- (intransitive) To kiss in this manner.
- (cuisine) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
- (to kiss while inserting tongue) French kiss, French
French
Pronunciation Noun
french
- (chiefly collective & plural) The people of France; groups of French people.
- The Hundred Years' War was fought between the English and the French.
- Under the Fourth Republic, more and more French unionized.
- 1579, Geoffrey Fenton, translating Francesco Guicciardini as The Historie of Guicciardin, p. 378:
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart, translating François Rabelais as Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Vol. I, p. 214:
- Such is the nature and complexion of the frenches, that they are worth nothing, but at the first push.
- (chiefly uncountable) The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world.
- She speaks French.
- c. 1390, Robert Grosseteste, translating Chateau d'Amour as The Castle of Love, ll. 25 ff.:
- 1533, Thomas More, The Debellacyon of Salem & Bizance, fol. 96:
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, p. 13:
- I could speak but little French.
- 1991, Michael Clyne, Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations, Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 9783110888140), page 169:
- Thus, complementary to the French of France, the Quebecois (and in a lesser degree the Frenches of Africa, Swiss French, etc.) would constitute languages in their own right.
- 2013, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-c.1500, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (ISBN 9781903153475), page 361:
- The Frenches of England remain as working languages in the different registers of various occupational communities and for particular social rituals. Beyond the fifteenth century, French is a much less substantial presence in England, though […]
- (uncountable) The ability of a person to communicate in French.
- My French is a little rusty.
- 1742 April 4, R. West, letter to Thomas Gray:
- [Racine's] language is the language of the times, and that of the purest sort; so that his French is reckoned a standard.
- (uncountable) French language and literature as an object of study.
- I'm taking French next semester.
- (uncountable, euphemistic, now often ironic) Vulgar language.
- Pardon my French.
- 1845, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Adventure in New Zealand, Vol. I, p. 327:
- The enraged headsman spares no ‘bad French’ in explaining his motives.
- 1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
- Cameron: Pardon my French, but you're an asshole!
- 2005 May 29, New York Times Book Review, p. 12:
- The book... is a welcome change from theory-infected academic discourse, pardon my French.
- (uncountable, dated slang) Synonym of oral sex#English|oral sex, especially fellatio.
- 1916, Henry Nathaniel Cary, The Slang of Venery and Its Analogues, Vol. I, p. 94 ↗:
- French--to do the French--Cocksucking; and, inversely, to tongue a woman.
- 1968, Bill Turner, Sex Trap, p. 64:
- You can be whipped or caned... or you can have French for another pound.
- 1986 May 6, Semper Floreat, p. 34:
- Always use condoms with Greek (anal intercourse), straight sex (vaginal intercourse, fucking), French (oral sex).
- 1996 October 13, Observer, p. 25:
- ‘French’—still used by prostitutes as a term for oral sex.
- 1916, Henry Nathaniel Cary, The Slang of Venery and Its Analogues, Vol. I, p. 94 ↗:
- (chiefly uncountable, dated slang) Synonym of dry#English|dry vermouth.
- 1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, p. 177:
- Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him.
- 1967, Michael Francis Gilbert, The Dust & the Heat, p. 14:
- He was drinking double gins with single Frenches in them.
- 1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, p. 177:
- French: français, les Français
- German: die Franzosen
- Portuguese: franceses
- Russian: францу́зы
- Spanish: franceses
- French: français, langue française
- German: Französisch
- Italian: francese
- Portuguese: francês
- Russian: францу́зский язы́к
- Spanish: francés
- Portuguese: linguajar
french
- Of or relating to France.
- the French border with Italy
- Of or relating to the people or culture of France.
- French customs
- Of or relating to the French language.
- French verbs
- (slang, sexuality) Of or related to oral sex, especially fellatio.
- French active
- French girl
- (informal, often, euphemistic) Used to form names or references to venereal diseases.
- French disease
- French crown
- French pox
- French: français
- German: französisch
- Italian: francese
- Portuguese: francês
- Russian: францу́зский
- Spanish: francés
- French: français
- German: französisch
- Italian: francese
- Portuguese: francês
- Russian: францу́зский
- Spanish: francés
- French: français
- German: französisch
- Italian: francese
- Portuguese: francês
- Russian: францу́зский
- Spanish: francés
french (frenches, present participle frenching; past and past participle frenched)
- Alternative letter-case form of french
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