Meanings
plural rosbifs
- humorousAn English person (as viewed by the French).
France demonstrate the entente cordiale towards the rosbifs.
2009, Andy Roberts, Flying the Flag, page 2331 more example
Polidor Graindart, sometime sergeant of the intendant's guard in the days when three golden lilies bloomed on the flagstaff above the De Troit blockhouse, never had forgiven the rosbifs for the conquest of New France.
1938, Neil Harmon Swanson, The forbidden ground, page 85
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishroast beef
- Frenchrosbif
- Englishrosbif
Borrowed from French rosbif, from English roast beef. Doublet of roast beef.
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