Frenchified, ppl. a.
(ˈfrɛnʃɪfaɪd)
[f. next + -ed1.]
1. contemptuous. Having French manners or qualities; French-like.
| 1597 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. i. i. This is one Monsieur Fastidious Brisk, otherwise called the fresh Frenchified courtier. 1606 Sir G. Goosecappe i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 8 Can yee not knowe a man from a Marmasett, in theis Frenchified dayes of ours? 1717 D. Jones Secr. Hist. Whitehall II. 328 Which Procedure thunderstruck the King and his Frenchify'd Council. 1770 J. Love Cricket 4 The Frenchifi'd Diversion of Billiards. 1819 Hermit in Lond. III. 116 Frenchified John Bull is a would-be butterfly, and a positive blockhead. 1861 Thackeray Four Georges ii. (1876) 51 The home satirists jeered at the Frenchified..ways which they brought back. |
† 2. (See quot. 1659). Obs.
| 1655 Culpepper, etc. Riverius ii. viii. 85 One Man..whom he suspected to be Frenchified. 1659 Torriano, Rinfrancescáre, to be or become frenchified, or full of the French⁓pox. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Frenchified, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt. 1725 in New Cant. Dict. |