Belgie

plural Belgies

1. slangA Belgian.

   Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese.

   1980, Barbara Hanrahan, The Frangipani Garden, page 11

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   “I don’t hold with foreigners as a rule, but from what the newspapers say I make out as how these brave Belgies isn’t the ordinary run of foreigners, and certainly he’s a most polite spoken gentleman.”

   1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 114

   Money's coming through any day from the Belgies — it's all in order, paper work, all that — but we need to put up a bit extra just now. Before it comes through.

   1984, Pamela Haines, The Diamond Waterfall, page 353

   If you listen carefully, you can hear the Belgies down below in the underground galleries. Hundreds of them there are.

   2014, Leo Kessler, SS Panzer Battalion: Wotan's First Mission