frenchify

About 0.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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".

2. verb To become French or more French-like.

   This restaurant has frenchified.

3. verb Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.

Similar words

frenchize germanify englishify francize gallicize germanize latinize italianize russify greekify

Often followed by

the his

Word family

Frenchification Frenchifications Frenchifies Frenchify frenchification frenchifications frenchified frenchifies frenchifying