Frenchified
"Be careful, Tweedy, the Mort's Frenchified."
-Gangs of New York
Today in Colonial American History, these two students were presenting something about the attack on the English settlement in Deerfield, MA by the French and their Indian allies. Another duo of students then presented on the interacial marriages between French settlers and native inhabitants in colonial Louisiana. The term "Frenchified" was used to describe the assimilation that occurred amongst Indian tribes that came into close contact with the French. Things like tribes converting to Catholicism (which one kid pronounced Catholik-ism)
The thing is, Frenchified has two meanings. It's seocndary meaning is defined as becoming more Frenchlike, it's primary meaning is more lewd. Frenchified is slang for contracting veneral disease.
I knew this from Gangs of New York and started laughing in class. Nobody else got it and the teacher gave me a funny look. But I thought it was truly hilarious.
"The Indians had close relations with the French and were Frenchified"
-Gangs of New York
Today in Colonial American History, these two students were presenting something about the attack on the English settlement in Deerfield, MA by the French and their Indian allies. Another duo of students then presented on the interacial marriages between French settlers and native inhabitants in colonial Louisiana. The term "Frenchified" was used to describe the assimilation that occurred amongst Indian tribes that came into close contact with the French. Things like tribes converting to Catholicism (which one kid pronounced Catholik-ism)
The thing is, Frenchified has two meanings. It's seocndary meaning is defined as becoming more Frenchlike, it's primary meaning is more lewd. Frenchified is slang for contracting veneral disease.
I knew this from Gangs of New York and started laughing in class. Nobody else got it and the teacher gave me a funny look. But I thought it was truly hilarious.
"The Indians had close relations with the French and were Frenchified"
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