french
/fɹɛnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
- To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
- To kiss in this manner.
- 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).
He/she/it frenches · Past frenched · Past participle frenched · -ing form frenching
Verb forms
- Base form
- french
- He/she/it
- frenches
- Past
- frenched
- Past participle
- frenched
- -ing form
- frenching
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“Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,” thought Alice; “I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.” (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: “Où est ma chatte?” which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.
“Yes,” said Alice, “we learned French and music.”
“Now at _ours_ they had at the end of the bill, ‘French, music, _and washing_—extra.’”
There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he’s up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.
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