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English
Etymology
From French + -ify.
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Verb
frenchify (third-person singular simple present frenchifies, present participle frenchifying, simple past and past participle frenchified)
- (transitive) To make French or more French-like in any way.
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".
- (intransitive) To become French or more French-like.
This restaurant has frenchified.
- (transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.
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