Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who eats frogs: a British term of contempt for a Frenchman.
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Examples
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One day, because the ring-master called him a frog-eater, or something like that and maybe a little worse, he shoved him against the soft pine background he used in his knife-throwing act, so quick the ring-master didn't have time to think, and there, before the audience, De
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That thin-gutted frog-eater has got me feeling hotter than hoss radish!
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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"I vill crush the frog-eater as I do dis letter!" muttered Mr. Garlach, as he twisted the slip of paper into a shapeless mass and tossed it into the air.
Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range Clarence Young
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One day, because the ring-master called him a frog-eater, or something like that and maybe a little worse, he shoved him against the soft pine background he used in his knife-throwing act, so quick the ring-master didn't have time to think, and there, before the audience, De
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He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs -- frog-eater -- fish-killer -- he shall hunt thee!
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs -- frog-eater -- fish-killer -- he shall hunt _thee_!
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs -- frog-eater -- fish-killer, he shall hunt
The Jungle Book. 1893
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"frog-eater" who occupied the old house on the levee, Lascelles, the husband of the pretty Frenchwoman he and the lieutenant had dragged out of the mud that very morning and had driven up to the old D'Hervilly place on Rampart Street.
Waring's Peril Charles King 1888
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"So far as talking gibberish and pouring whiskey into us, they were; but whin they landed us, one dirty frog-eater sang out: --
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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"And would you believe it, Miss Jelliffe, that big Frenchman jumped off his bunk and stared at him, and then he grabbed me and kissed me on both cheeks as if I'd been another blessed frog-eater, and I wanted to punch his nose but compromised by shaking hands instead.
Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick
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