| 单词 | frog-eating |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrog-eating frog-eating adj. that eats frogs; esp. (derogatory) applied to French people (see sense A. 10). ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. sig. aaaa2v Alphabet. Table, Boytiapua, a Frog-eating Snake or Serpent, wherewith if a barren womans hips be strooke, the Indians say she presently conceiues with child. 1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem i. ii. 6 Zouns, ye chattering, frog-eating dunder-head, can't you see a gentleman, 'tis Mr. Saville. 1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Oct. 331/2 Their time was spent in..defying the French frog-eating monseers. 1946 Sci. Monthly Dec. 452/1 Even inconspicuous green and brown frogs are careful to hide themselves from the many frog-eating birds and reptiles. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! viii. 80 Shouting like an Englishman asking his way..in Paris of a frog-eating foreign fiend who can't understand normal language. < as lemmas |
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