- Frenchify (v.)
- 1590s, from French + -ify. Usually contemptuous (Richardson in his introduction to "Pamela," beseeches the editor not to "Frenchify our English solidity into froth and whip-syllabub"). Related: Frenchified; Frenchifying.
- I've
- contraction of I have, 1742, first attested in Richardson's "Pamela."