Word Confusion: french versus French

Plural for the noun: french
Gerund: frenching

Third person present verb: frenches
Past tense or past participle: frenched
Present participle: frenching

Plural for the noun: the French

[Informal, often euphemistic] Used to form names or references to venereal diseases

A condom

Noun:
[Automotive; frenching] The act of recessing or moulding a headlight, taillight, antenna or number plate into a car body to give a smoother look to the vehicle

An absence or departure from some place or event without ceremony, permission, or announcement

[Military] Desertion of one’s unit

[Plural french] A unit of measure equal to one-third millimeter used in measuring the outside diameter of a tubular instrument (as a catheter or sound) inserted into a bodily cavity

Verb, transitive:
To prepare (food) according to a French method

• To cut (snap beans) into slivers or thin strips before cooking
• To trim the meat from the end of (a rib chop or chicken breast with attached wing)
• To prepare (meat) for cooking by slicing it into strips and pounding

[Slang] To short-sheet (a bed)

[Slang] To give (someone) a french kiss

[Vulgar; slang] To perform fellatio or cunnilingus on (someone)

Proper noun:
The Romance language of France, also used in parts of Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada, in several countries of northern and western Africa and the Caribbean, and elsewhere

[As plural noun, the French] The people of France collectively

[Placename] Relating to, denoting, or characteristic of France, the French, or their language

[Brewing] Short for French vermouth, a dry pale amber variety

[Informal] Coarse or vulgar language

“After the South American music there was an interval Marco led me through the french doors into the garden” (Plath).

Can we have french toast for breakfast?

I’d avoid Madame Paix’s. I hear her girls have the french pox.

Ask George. He has some french letters.

Noun:
Frenching gives the effect of visually lengthening the car, as well as smoothing out the body.

The official story is that he’s sick, but I think he’s just taking french leave.

As the evening wore on, we decided to just take french leave and make our way home.

The sergeant is facing a court martial after it was discovered that he’d taken french leave just before the deadly operation.

How much is a french at a cathouse like that?

The catheter shaft size is three French.

I adore french fries done in an air fryer.

She likes a french heel.

Verb, transitive:
Have Gerard french the potatoes.

I love how they frenched the green beans.

For this recipe, the chops on the rack of lamb are frenched about an inch.

To french a chicken breast, scrape down the meat on the wing to expose the bone.

Prepare a chicken breast french-style.

John and Paul frenched Roger’s bed.

Her parents found her frenching her boyfriend on the porch swing after curfew.

Helena prefers french oral most because she doesn’t have to put the whole dick in her small mouth.

Her accent is very French.

All the staff are French.

Even the French food at French truck stops is amazing.

French cooking is famous for its flavors.

She’s taking French lessons.

Proper noun:
I’d love to be fluent in French.

The French, they say, live to eat.

An exchange student, he’ll be staying with a French family.

“The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles off on the line of Kutuzov’s retreat” (Tolstoy).

Louisiana was named in homage to Louis XIV.

“Dolin Blanc is ‘French vermouth, with notes of melon, orange peel, flowers, and clove — long, fresh, acidic finish'” (Dowling).

Philosophies advanced by the French during the Age of Reason profoundly influenced the American Founding Fathers.

Pardon my French.