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frog-eater

frog-eater is the alternative form of frogeater.

Meaning of frogeater

Noun

frogeater (plural frogeaters)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A French person.
    • 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...1851, Charles Dickens, A Monument of French Folly

Forms of frog-eater

pluralfrog-eaters

Questions about frog-eater

What is frog-eater the alternative form of?
Frog-eater is the alternative form of frogeater.

Words near frog-eater in the dictionary

  1. frog's-eye views
  2. frog-biting midge
  3. frog-biting midges
  4. frog-butt
  5. frog-butts
  6. frog-eater
  7. frog-eaters
  8. frog-eye salad
  9. frog-eyed
  10. frog-fish
  11. frog-fishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frog-eater (page history and authors); frogeater (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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