Frenchyn.
/ˈfrɛn(t)ʃi/, U.S. /ˈfrɛn(t)ʃi/ 1. depreciative. A French person; (also) a French Canadian.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of France
FrenchmanOE
monsieur?a1513
Gaul1630
frog1657
Gallic1755
mounseer1755
parleyvoo1755
frog-eater1766
Galloman1787
mossoo1809
Frencher1826
Frenchy1829
parley1831
crapaud?c1834
wi-wi1841
froggy1853
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French
French Canadian1698
coureur de bois1700
Canadien1727
Acadian French1741
Canadian French1755
habitant1789
Frenchy1829
Canuck1835
pea soup1866
pea-souper1930
Joe1963
1829 A. Scott in R. Chambers Sc. Songs II. 388 O, Symon, the Frenchies are landit!..What a plague! the French landit! quo Symon.
1847 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 8 Sept. 3/4 He..procured a ticket, and handed it to the excited Frenchman. Poor Frenchy took the square piece of paste board marked ‘Box’.
1895 Daily News 27 Dec. 7/3 Of what nationality is he, then?—Witness: Why, I think he's a Frenchy.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xii. 117 We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 89 Now I wonder who it is. A Frenchie by his tunic sleeve.
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It i. 3 There he is on the midway, Grack the Frenchie, talking for his countstore.
1966 Maclean's 2 May 50/4 I was constantly laughed at, pointed at and corrected, as a stupid Frenchy.
2000 Times 7 Aug. i. 16/2 Even before we grew so au fait with the French joie de vivre , there was a suspicion that Frenchies had something we lacked.
2. slang. A condom. Cf. French letter n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b.rare in U.S. usage. Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) at Frenchie reports recollections of spoken use from as early as the 1930s.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > condom
condom?1706
armour1708
machine1749
protective1827
French letter?1844
sheath1861
French safe1868
letterc1890
rubber1913
Durex1932
prophylactic1934
raincoat1934
male condom1938
Trojan1951
safety1952
safe1959
Frenchy1963
scumbag1967
internal condom1969
franger1975
dicksack1996
1963 J. Frame Reservoir 8 If he didn't wear a frenchie then she would start having a baby.
1974 M. Laurence Diviners 58 Boxes of not-used rubber frenchies.
1983 J. S. Neaman & C. G. Silver Dict. Euphemisms 222 A French Letter is also known as a Frenchy.
2005 G. Dunn in L. Davies Urban Welsh 219 I've been to see Ronnie the Barber and bought some Frenchies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Frenchyadj.adv.
/ˈfrɛn(t)ʃi/, U.S. /ˈfrɛn(t)ʃi/ Characteristic of what is French (as opposed to English, etc.); French in nature, French-like. Also: sexually adventurous or suggestive (cf. French adj. 3b).
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adjective] > like
Frenchc1400
Frenchified1600
Frenchmanlike1807
Frenchy1826
1796 M. C. de Crespigny Pavilion II. x. 195 I think it quite beautiful, and very much out of the common way—so Frenchy;—though, to be sure, it must have cost a vast deal.
1814 F. E. King Tour in France 1802 (ed. 2) 63 Their dinner smelt very frenchy and savoury, and consisted of stewed spinach and eggs.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 714/2 As to the dominoos.., the Frenchy maun hae left them as a token o' gratitude, and as the only payment in his power.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 233 The Englishman..prefers his hot chop..to the..amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare.
1900 Centralia (Wisconsin) Enterprise & Tribune 20 Jan. She..wore a superb gown of pale blue satin made up in a Frenchy fashion.
1950 J. Cannan Murder Included iii. 57 People will suspect Bunny just because she's Frenchy.
1967 C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah (new ed.) viii. 147 Word had gotten about that the plays in her repertoire were ‘Frenchy’, meaning naughty.
2006 Philadelphia Aug. 141/1 Dozens of armoirs, writing desks, and every other kind of Frenchy furniture.
Derivatives
ˈFrenchily adv.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adverb]
Frenchlya1522
French-likea1557
Frenchmanlike1760
Frenchily1855
1855 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Ideas vi, in Pictures of Trav. 181 The old gentleman town councillors had..donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily [Ger. sahen sich an auf französisch], and said ‘Bon jour!’
1914 M. L. Theiss-Whaley By Earthquake & Fire i. v. 98 Avec beaucoup de plaisir, Mademoiselle, returned the brother, Frenchily.
1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 261 Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek.
2000 J. E. Rivers in S. G. Kellman & I. Malin Torpid Smoke 99 Although the Russian style undulates Frenchily, the effect is so subtle that Nabokov has to point it out before we can start to feel it.
ˈFrenchiness n. freq. depreciative
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > quality or characteristic of
Frenchery1592
Gallicism1715
Frenchism1793
Frenchness1816
Frenchiness1855
1855 F. B. Goodrich Tricolored Sketches in Paris xlvii. 329 (heading) Intense Frenchiness of the Italian prince before mentioned.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 11 Oct. 10/4 If we want to stress the Frenchiness of the word, we leave the e , just as we do in the French phrase noblesse oblige , ‘the obligation of nobility’.
2004 B. Barry in J. Morrill Promotion of Knowl. 13 The ineffable Frenchiness of the French or the irreducible Serbiness of the Serbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1829adj.adv.1796