frenchify

• Frenchify

From French +‎ -ify.

• enPR: frĕnchʹĭfī, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪfaɪ/

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frenchify (third-person singular simple present frenchifies, present participle frenchifying, simple past and past participle frenchified)

1. (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".

2. (intransitive) To become French or more French-like.

   This restaurant has frenchified.

3. (transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.

• francize, gallicize

• Frenchification