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- 1 Of or relating to France.
"the French border with Italy"
- 2 Of or relating to the people or culture of France.
"French customs"
- 3 Of or relating to the French language.
"French verbs"
- 4 Of or related to oral sex, especially fellatio. slang
"French active"
- 5 Used to form names or references to venereal diseases. euphemistic, informal, often
"French disease"
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- 6 Used to form names or references to an unconventional or fancy style.
"French curve"
- 1 of or pertaining to France or the people of France wordnet
- 1 The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world. uncountable
"She speaks French."
- 2 The ability of a person to communicate in French. uncountable
"My French is a little rusty."
- 3 French language and literature as an object of study. uncountable
"I'm taking French next semester."
- 4 Vulgar language. euphemistic, ironic, often, uncountable
"Pardon my French."
- 5 A surname originating as an ethnonym. countable
"Dawn French."
- 1 The people of France; groups of French people. collective, countable, in-plural, uncountable
"The Hundred Years' War was fought between the English and the French."
- 2 the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France wordnet
- 3 Synonym of oral sex, especially fellatio. dated, slang, uncountable
"French--^([sic]) to do the French--Cocksucking; and, inversely, to tongue a woman."
- 4 the people of France wordnet
- 5 Ellipsis of French vermouth, a type of dry vermouth. abbreviation, alt-of, dated, ellipsis, slang, uncountable
"Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him."
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- 6 A French person. countable
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of french. alt-of
"Even before I thought about what I was doing we Frenched and kissed with tongues."
- 2 To prepare food by cutting it into strips. transitive
- 3 cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking wordnet
- 4 To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth. transitive
"Tom frenched her full in the mouth."
- 5 To kiss in this manner. intransitive
"We frenched by the wall."
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- 6 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).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”). Doublet of Frankish; piecewise doublet of Francis, Franz, and Francisco, which are derived from Late Latin Franciscus In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English curse words under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them. In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”). Doublet of Frankish; piecewise doublet of Francis, Franz, and Francisco, which are derived from Late Latin Franciscus In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English curse words under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them. In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”). Doublet of Frankish; piecewise doublet of Francis, Franz, and Francisco, which are derived from Late Latin Franciscus In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English curse words under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them. In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
Inherited from Middle English Frenche, Frensch, Frensc, Frenshe, Frenk, Franche, from Old English Frenċisċ (“Frankish, French”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk (“Frankish”), equivalent to Frank + -ish (compare Frankish). Cognate with Middle Low German vranksch, frenkisch, vrenkesch, vrenksch (“Frankish, French”), Middle High German vrenkisch, vrensch ("Frankish, Franconian; > German fränkisch (“Frankish, Franconian”)), Danish fransk (“French”), Swedish fransk, fransysk (“French”), Icelandic franska (“French”). Doublet of Frankish; piecewise doublet of Francis, Franz, and Francisco, which are derived from Late Latin Franciscus In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English curse words under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar with them. In reference to vermouth, a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as usually being drier than Italian vermouth.
From Middle English French, Frensch, Frensh, from Old English Frencisc (“of the Franks, Frankish, French”), from Franca (“a Frank”). Compare Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), akin to Old English franca (“javelin, spear”), from the use of such weapons by the Franks.
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