french

English

/fɹɛnt͡ʃ/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
  • (transitive) To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
  • (intransitive) To kiss in this manner.
  • (cuisine) 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).

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English French inherited from Old English frencisc (Frankish, of the Franks, French).

Origin

Old English

frencisc

Gloss

Frankish, of the Franks, French

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