ppl. a. [f. next + -ED1.]
1. contemptuous. Having French manners or qualities; French-like.
1597. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., I. i. This is one Monsieur Fastidious Brisk, otherwise called the fresh Frenchified courtier.
1606. Sir G. Goosecappe, I. i., in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 8. Bul. Out, ye mopede monckies, can yee not knowe a man from a Marmasett, in theis Frenchified dayes of ours?
1717. D. Jones, Secr. Hist. White-hall, II. 328–9. Which Procedure thunder-struck the King and his Frenchify’d Council, so that a Peace with the Dutch was quickly huddled up.
1770. J. Love, Cricket, 4. The Frenchifi’d Diversion of Billiards.
1819. M’Donogh, Hermit in Lond., III. 116. Frenchified John Bull is a grave solemn coxcomb, a systematical voluptary, a would-be butterfly, and a positive blockhead.
1861. Thackeray, Four Georges, ii. (1876), 51. The home satirists jeered at the Frenchified and Italian ways which they brought back.
† 2. (See quot. 1659). Obs.
1655. Culpepper, etc., Riverius, II. viii. 85. One Man … whom he suspected to be Frenchified.
1659. Torriano, Rinfrancescáre, to be or become frenchified, or full of the French-pox.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Frenchified, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt.
1715. in New Cant. Dict.
