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单词 frenchified
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Frenchifiedadj.

Brit. /ˈfrɛn(t)ʃᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈfrɛntʃəˌfaɪd/
Forms: 1600s Frenchefied, 1600s– Frenchified. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Frenchify v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < Frenchify v. + -ed suffix1. In sense 2 after French adj. 4.
Frequently depreciative.
1. That has come under French influence; that has adopted French manners or characteristics.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adjective] > like
Frenchc1400
Frenchified1600
Frenchmanlike1807
Frenchy1826
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Divv This is one Monsieur Fastidius Briske, otherwise cal'd the fresh Frenchefied courtier. View more context for this quotation
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. A2v Can yee not knowe a man from a Marmasett, in theis Frenchified dayes of ours?
1697 D. Jones Contin. Secret Hist. White-Hall 377 Which Procedure thunder-struck the King and his Frenchified Council.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 68/2 On March 18. the French with Indians, being half one, half t'other, half Indianized French, and half Frenchified Indians..fell suddenly upon Salmon Falls.
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 4 (note) The Frenchifi'd Diversion of Billiards.
1819 F. MacDonogh Hermit in London III. 116 Frenchified John Bull is a would-be butterfly, and a positive blockhead.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 86 The home satirists jeered at the Frenchified..ways which they brought back.
1927 Daily Express 23 Sept. 3/3 The food was nourishing and English—..none of your Frenchified frillinesses.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. v. 2/1 (advt.) Here in marvellously striped cotton by Boussac of France..is our ‘Frenchified’ bikini.
1991 Wine Summer 26/2 He bought it from a Mr. Quenedey whose name is thought to be a Frenchified spelling of ‘Kennedy’!
2006 E. T. Jennings Curing Colonizers iv. 93 Tsilaos..would later become Reunion's largest spa, under the Frenchified name of Cilaos.
2. slang. Of a person: infected with a venereal disease. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with
pockyc1350
French-sick1605
Frenchified1607
pock-rotten1616
poxed1678
Gallican1694
syphilitic1787
pox-fouleda1915
1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne i. 14 Someone ‘that hath been laide five times of the pox’ and become ‘thoroughly frenchified and well peper'd’.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ii. viii. 85 One Man..whom he suspected to be Frenchified.
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Rinfrancescáre, to be or become frenchified, or full of the French~pox.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Frenchified, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt.
1725 New Canting Dict. Frenchified, Clapt or Poxt.
?1793 J. Caulfield Blackguardiana Frenchified, infected with the venereal disease.
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum 7 Frenchified, infected with the venereal disease. The mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
1977 Logophile Oct. 11/1 When syphilis spread across Europe round about 1500, the French and Spanish armies were indiscriminately blamed... Any unfortunate who caught it was well and truly ‘Frenchified’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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