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Frenchie Slang

• 1 n. a French-speaking descendant of the settlers of New France of Acadia; a Canadian of French ancestry.

  See also: French Canadian (def. 1)  

  • 1891  I wouldn't give him for half a dozen of those parlez vous Frenchies. . . .
  • 1910  "Lamonte was his name. He was a Frenchy."
  • 1966  In those three months . . . I was constantly laughed at, pointed at and corrected, as a stupid Frenchy.

• 2 n. Obs. a member of the French Company

  See also: French Company (def. 2)  

  • 1913  . . . they've bargained with a French fur company, as far as I can gather. The Frenchies have been successful in the Rockies and on the Mackenzie, and they're figuring on starting a post or so in this territory.