french
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Is french a Scrabble word?
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Definition
name (English)
1. (chiefly uncountable) The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world.Examples: "She speaks French."; "Ne mowe we alle Latin wite... Ne French..."; "I... wolde also be bolde in such french as is peculiare to the lawys of this realme, to leue it wyth them in wrytynge to."Synonyms: mul:fr, mul:freuncountable
2. (uncountable) The ability of a person to communicate in French.Examples: "My French is a little rusty."; "[Racine's] language is the language of the times, and that of the purest sort; so that his French is reckoned a standard."uncountable
3. (uncountable) French language and literature as an object of study.Examples: "I'm taking French next semester."uncountable
4. (uncountable, euphemistic, now often ironic) Vulgar language.Examples: "Pardon my French."; "The enraged headsman spares no 'bad French' in explaining his motives."; "Cameron: Pardon my French, but you're an asshole!"euphemisticironicoftenuncountable
5. (countable) A surname originating as an ethnonym.Examples: "Dawn French."countable
noun (English)
1. (chiefly collective and in the plural) The people of France; groups of French people.Examples: "The Hundred Years' War was fought between the English and the French."; "Under the Fourth Republic, more and more French unionized."; "[…]to breake the necke of the wicked purposes & plots of the French[…]"collectivecountablein-pluraluncountable
2. (uncountable, dated slang, sex) Synonym of oral sex, especially fellatio.Examples: "French--^([sic]) to do the French--Cocksucking; and, inversely, to tongue a woman."; "You can be whipped or caned... or you can have French for another pound."; "Always use condoms with Greek (anal intercourse), straight sex (vaginal intercourse, fucking), French (oral sex)."Synonyms: oral sexdatedslanguncountable
3. (chiefly uncountable, dated slang) Ellipsis of French vermouth, a type of dry vermouth.Examples: "Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him."; "He was drinking double gins with single Frenches in them."abbreviationalt-ofdatedellipsisslanguncountable
4. (countable, non-native speakers' English) A French person.countable
adj (English)
1. (slang, sexuality) Of or related to oral sex, especially fellatio.Examples: "French active"; "French girl"; "She was a tall redhead, with a shape that would make you jump for joy and a reputation as the best French girl in the place."slang
2. (informal, often euphemistic) Used to form names or references to venereal diseases.Examples: "French disease"; "French crown"; "French pox"euphemisticinformaloften
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.transitive
2. (transitive) To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.Examples: "Tom frenched her full in the mouth."Synonyms: French kiss, Frenchtransitive
3. (intransitive) To kiss in this manner.Examples: "We frenched by the wall."intransitive
4. (cooking) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
Definition source: Wiktionary