Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. having venereal disease.

1607		Rowlands Diogenes Lanthorne 14: Matters marke the end of him that hath beene laide fiue times of the Pox [...] if he be not throughly frenchified, and well peper’d for his venerie, then I will for seauen yeares eate hay with a horse.
1617		Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 297: Your Waste is shamefull then, sith it to hide, Your English Bummes are still so Frenchifide.
1621		J. Taylor ‘Travels of Twelve-pence’ in Works (1869) I 69: For hauing got a Frenchified heat, / She was prescrib’d a Dyet and a sweat.
1648		Mr Henry Martin: His Speech 4: Bawdy houses [...] have almost gleaned me dry of money, of marrow, and almost frenchyfied my Tongue.
1656		Mennis & Smith ‘Upon Naked Bedlams etc.’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 109: Whilst all those naked Bedlams, painted Babies, / Spottified Faces, and Frenchified Ladies [...] Will prove at last, but fooles and beggars prizes.
1671		‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 218: Your Gallant is supply’d, / By his Bones as well, / As his Cloathes you may smell, / He’s rarely Frenchify’d.
1682		E. Hickeringill The Mushroom in Works (1709) II 367: She is no French-Miss, nor yet Frenchify’d.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Frenchified, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1748		Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 360: I resolved to collect my whole strength of assurance to brow-beat the efforts of her malice, and to publish her adventure with the Frenchified barber, by way of reprisal.
1756		Caledonian Mercury 22 June 3/1: Our very good friends, the Frenchfied D—ch.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.

2. usu. of a woman, sexually talented.

1986–7

Maledicta IX 55: Frenchified adj [D] Sexually talented; said of a woman.