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PRONUNCIATION OF FRANKENFOOD

Frankenfood  [ˈfræŋkənˌfuːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRANKENFOOD

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Frankenfood is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRANKENFOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Paul Lewis (professor)

Paul Lewis is Professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, specializing in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.: University of New Hampshire. Professor Lewis is on the editorial board of Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. He is also a freelance writer, who invented the neologism "frankenfood", critical of genetically modified food, in a letter he wrote to the New York Times in response to the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to market genetically modified food. The term "frankenfood" has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural trade war.

Definition of Frankenfood in the English dictionary

The definition of Frankenfood in the dictionary is any foodstuff that has been genetically modified.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRANKENFOOD


attitude
ˈætɪˌtjuːd
brainfood
ˈbreɪnˌfuːd
continued
kənˈtɪnjuːd
dogfood
ˈdɒɡˌfuːd
dude
duːd
exclude
ɪkˈskluːd
fast-food
fɑːst fuːd
food
fuːd
include
ɪnˈkluːd
latitude
ˈlætɪˌtjuːd
longitude
ˈlɒndʒɪˌtjuːd
mood
muːd
nonfood
ˌnɒnˈfuːd
nude
njuːd
oud
uːd
rude
ruːd
seafood
ˈsiːˌfuːd
superfood
ˈsuːpəˌfuːd
wholefood
ˈhəʊlˌfuːd
you´d
juːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRANKENFOOD

Franglais
franion
frank
frankalmoign
franked investment income
Frankenstein
Frankenstein food
Frankenstein´s monster
Frankensteinian
Frankfort
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt an der Oder
Frankfurt School
frankfurter
frankincense
franking machine
Frankish

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRANKENFOOD

baby food
bar food
cat food
comfort food
convenience food
diet food
dog food
fast food
finger food
frozen food
genetically modified food
health food
junk food
party food
pet food
pub food
rabbit food
skin food
slow food
soul food

Synonyms and antonyms of Frankenfood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Frankenfood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRANKENFOOD

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The translations of Frankenfood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Frankenfood» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恶魔食品
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Frankenfood
570 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
278 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
220 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
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Franken
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
80 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
75 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Frankenfood
70 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
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Frankenfood
50 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
40 millions of speakers

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Frankenfood
30 millions of speakers
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Frankenfood
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Frankenfood
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Translator English - Swedish

Frankenfood
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Frankenfood
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Frankenfood

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRANKENFOOD»

The term «Frankenfood» is regularly used and occupies the 96.412 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRANKENFOOD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Frankenfood» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Frankenfood» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Frankenfood

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRANKENFOOD»

Discover the use of Frankenfood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Frankenfood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the ...
How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution Henry I. Miller, Gregory P. Conko. THE FRANKENFOOD MYTH How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution Henry L Miller and Gregory Conko Greenwood Ml II! IMIIM ...
Henry I. Miller, Gregory P. Conko, 2004
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Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Decoding. the. Debate. on. "Frankenfood". Hugh. Gusterson. Since the development in the early 1990s of the world's first genetically modified (GM) crop (a pest-resistant tobacco plant in China), the industry for bio- engineered food has ...
Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, Charles Zerner, 2005
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Genetic Engineering
4 Frankenfood or Miracle-Gro? Agricultural Applications of Genetic Engineering With the advent of genetic engineering since 1 971 , geneticists have made great breakthroughs with plants and their reproduction. By modifying certain foods ...
Mark Youngblood Herring, 2006
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Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to ...
Frankenfood. Just as we begin to understand what food is and is not, and what its meanings are, a new category emerges that confounds all the traditional classifications. These are the newly engineered, genetically modified foods, GMFs, ...
Carol Delaney, 2011
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Labeling Genetically Modified Food : The Philosophical and ...
8. Frankenfood. Free. Consumer Sovereignty, Federal Regulation, and Industry Control in Marketing and Choosing Food in the United States Thomas O. McGarity One of the most contentious of the many public policy debates over foods ...
Columbia Paul Weirich Professor of Philosophy University of Missouri, 2007
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Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's listing of words of the year from 1991 to 2001.
Allan A. Metcalf, 2004
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Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A ...
Frankly, I rather like the coinage Frankenfood. But if people do not enjoy or feel comfortable eating genetically altered foods, which I suspect is likely, the word will be fleeting. Almost all slang, the people at Merriam-Webster should know, ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
8
The Monster Mall and other spooky poems
Youngsters can tickle their funny bones with skeletons, monsters, and a whole slew of silly-scary characters in a collection of fun and kooky, spooky poems. Simultaneous.
David Steinberg, Adrian C. Sinnott, 2004
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Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food
It is this loss of emotional reasoning and disrespect for the autonomy and sacrosanctity of nature that anti-GM activists in Europe warn against and angrily pin upon their scientific adversaries. And it is this aspect of the Frankenfood metaphor, ...
Lisa H. WEASEL Ph.D., 2008
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Copy Editor
... engineered food/genetically modified food, F-M: 5 The Food Lover's Companion, A-M: 6 Food terms chalupa, F-M: 8; A-M: 7 (letters) coffee-zilla, F-M: 6 Frankenfood/genetically engineered food/bioengineered food, F-M: 1,5 neutraceuticals, ...
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRANKENFOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Frankenfood is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cooking class planned very soon at The Castle
Greer won Spike TV's 'Frankenfood' last June by making Gyro Bites, which landed him on The Wicked Hop's menu in Milwaukee. He hosted a ... «Beloit Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Fast Food Friday: Reviewing Pizza Hut's Hot Dog Bites Pizza, and …
It's one of those Frankenfood creations that had existed in some shadowy form long before Pizza Hut announced it as a limited-time offering for ... «Alligator Army, Jul 15»
3
The hack to end all hacks: China now has sensitive info on 21.5 …
Now, on a more pleasant note, who wants to talk about the new Frankenfood from KFC? It's not chicken, it's not pizza — it's … “chizza,” with ... «Hot Air, Jul 15»
4
KFC Just Combined Pizza With Chicken And It's F*cking Magnificent …
KFC just created the ultimate Frankenfood snack by combining your beloved pizza with its signature crispy chicken. «Elite Daily, Jul 15»
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Why Whole Foods and Chipotle's anti-GMO campaigning has lost …
The piece was entitled, “Meet Mr. Frankenfood.” As a newbie to the issue, I recall wondering, 'what's the big deal?' Why would anyone oppose ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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Twitching meat in China confuses many, others confused by the …
... suggesting that this was the dawn of the zombie apocalypse, the meat “looked infested,” or that it was some GMO frankenfood disaster. «RocketNews24, Jul 15»
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Hillary vs. Bernie on Frankenfood
Food is a good reason for Democrats and Republicans to abscond from their "politics as usual" party loyalties and vote for Bernie Sanders, the ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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Neil Young's new album blasts Walmart, Monsanto and more
Even though Young has made a name for himself with protest songs like “Ohio” and “Southern Man,” an entire album about “Frankenfood” may ... «WTTV CBS4Indy, Jun 15»
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No more 'Frankenfood' | Art & Appetite
If you're not familiar with it, it's a manufactured “Frankenfood” - the stick kind in particular. (At our house, it was Blue Bonnet.) Margarine was ... «Edmonds Beacon, Jun 15»
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Burger King serves up red burger
This means that fast food chains aren't limiting their spectacles of frankenfood to American consumers. Some of the more extreme examples ... «fox8.com, Jun 15»

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