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Frenchily

Frenchily adverb: in an exaggeratedly French manner.

Adverb

Frenchily (comparative more Frenchily, superlative most Frenchily)

  1. In an exaggeratedly French manner.
    • French grenadiers stood as sentinels, the old gentlemen town councillors had put on new faces, and donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily, and said "Bon jour!"1882, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel, page 181
    • Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.c. 1930, Walter de la Mare, The Orgy

Forms of Frenchily

comparativemore Frenchily
superlativemost Frenchily

Origin of Frenchily

From Frenchy + -ly.

Questions about Frenchily

What does Frenchily mean?
Frenchily means in an exaggeratedly French manner.
What part of speech is Frenchily?
Frenchily is an adverb.

Words near Frenchily in the dictionary

  1. frenchified
  2. frenchifies
  3. frenchify
  4. frenchifying
  5. Frenchiko
  6. Frenchily
  7. Frenchiness
  8. frenching
  9. frenchise
  10. Frenchised
  11. frenchises

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