Meaning of Franglais | Babel Free

Definitions

1. French terms or expressions recently borrowed from the English language.
   derogatory, often
2. Alternative letter-case form of Franglais.
   alt-of
3. The poor French spoken by anglophones.
   derogatory, often
4. Colloquial speech that is a mix of English and French terms, conjugation, and grammar.

Equivalents

Examples

“The play presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk, etc.”

CEFR level