Meanings
plural frogeaters
- derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA French person.
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes is a gallant gentleman, you may take your Bible oath on that, but he that fights the murdering frogeaters single-handed is he whom they call The Scarlet Pimpernel: the bravest gentleman in all the world.
1908, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Elusive Pimpernel1 more example
Of a great Institution like Smithfield, [the French] are unable to form the least conception. A Beast Market in the heart of Paris would be regarded an impossible nuisance. Nor have they any notion of slaughter-houses in the midst of a city. One of these benighted frog-eaters would scarcely understand your meaning, if you told him of the existence of such a British bulwark.
1851, Charles Dickens, A Monument of French Folly
Origin
From frog + eater, after the French custom of eating frog legs. Attested since at least the 18th century.
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