frenchified

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see also: Frenchified

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɹɛn(t)ʃɪˌfaɪd/

Adjective

frenchified

1. (ethnic slur, slang) Having contracted a venereal disease.
2. Having become more like the French.

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Frenchified

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Adjective

frenchified

1. Made French or more French-like
   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part II, Chapter 3, page 168

     This life, whose dreary superficiality is covered by the glitter of universal blague, like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume, induced in him a Frenchified—but most un-French—cosmopolitanism, in reality a mere barren indifferentism posing as intellectual superiority.

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of Frenchify

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