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French

  [french]
Use french in a Sentence
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
–noun
2. the people of France and their direct descendants.
3. a Romance language spoken in France, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and in areas colonized after 1500 by France. Abbreviation: F
–verb (used with object)
4. (often lowercase) to prepare (food) according to a French method.
5. (often lowercase) to cut (snap beans) into slivers or thin strips before cooking.
6. (often lowercase) to trim the meat from the end of (a rib chop).
7. (often lowercase) to prepare (meat) for cooking by slicing it into strips and pounding.
8. Slang. to short-sheet (a bed).
9. (often lowercase) Slang: Vulgar. to give oral stimulation of the penis or vulva.
Origin:
bef. 1150; ME Frensh, French, OE Frenc(i)sc. See Frank, -ish 1

Related forms:
Frenchness, noun
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French

  [french]
–noun
1. Alice (“Octave Thanet”), 1850–1934, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. Daniel Chester, 1850–1931, U.S. sculptor.
3. Sir John Den⋅ton Pink⋅stone  [den-tn pingk-stohn, -stuhn] , 1st Earl of Ypres, 1852–1925, English field marshal in World War I.
4. Marilyn, born 1929, U.S. novelist and nonfiction writer.
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french   (frěnch)   
tr.v.   frenched, french·ing, french·es

  1. To cut (green beans, for example) into thin strips before cooking.

  2. To trim fat or bone from (a chop, for example).

  3. or French

    1. Slang To give a French kiss to.

    2. Vulgar Slang To perform oral sex on.


[From French.]
French   (frěnch)   
adj.  

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of France or its people or culture.

  2. Of or relating to the French language.

n.  

  1. The Romance language of France, parts of Switzerland and Belgium, and other countries formerly under French influence or control.

  2. (used with a pl. verb) The people of France.

  3. Slang Coarse or vulgar language: Pardon my French.


[Middle English, from Old English frencisc, Frankish, from Franca, Frank; see Frank.]
French, Daniel Chester 1850-1931.  
American sculptor whose many public statues include the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
French

  1. n.
    an act of oral sex. (Usually objectionable.) : How much is a French at a cathouse like that?
  2. mod.
    referring to oral sex. (Usually objectionable.) : He tried some French stuff on her, and she nearly killed him.
  3. tv.
    to perform oral sex on someone. (Usually objectionable.) : He wanted her to French him.
  4. tv. & in.
    to kiss someone using the tongue; to French kiss. : We were French kissing when the teacher came in.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

French 
O.E. frencisc "of the Franks" (see frank). Euphemistic meaning "bad language" (pardon my French) is from 1895. Used in many combination-words, often dealing with food or sex. French fries is 1918 Amer.Eng., from French fried potatoes (1894, first attested in O.Henry); French dressing first recorded 1900; French toast is from 1660. French letter "condom" (c.1856), French (v.) "perform oral sex on" (c.1917) and French kiss (1923) all probably stem from the Anglo-Saxon equation of Gallic culture and sexual sophistication, a sense first recorded 1749 in French novel. To take French leave, "depart without telling the host," is 1771, from a social custom then prevalent. However, in France this is said to be called filer à l'anglaise, lit. "to take English leave."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: French
Pronunciation: 'french
Function: noun
Inflected Form: pl French
: a unit of measure equal to one-third millimeter usedin measuring the outside diameter of a tubular instrument (as a catheter or sound) inserted into a bodily cavity French —Medical IndustryToday> French catheter —J.-P. Beregi et al> —abbreviation F
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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