Frenchy
Definition of Frenchy
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: French in quality the little daughter of a very Frenchy lady — William Soskin a score that briskly sets about creating a Frenchy atmosphere — Douglas Watt; especially : markedly, affectedly, or spuriously French in quality or French in a superficial usually frivolous sense
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Origin and Etymology of frenchy
1French + -y
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