| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb frenchify.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (frenchify) | 1. Make French in appearance or character; "let's Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money".[Wordnet]. 2. Become French in appearance or character.[Wordnet]. 3. To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: frenchifying, frenchified, frenchifies, frenchifier, frenchifiers, frenchifyingly and frenchifiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "FRENCHIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: frenchify
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To make French; to infect with the manner of the French.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive) To become more French. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive) to make (something) more French in appearance or character This café likes to Frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites". (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
