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🇫🇷 Insulting French people 🐸 Hoarse or croaky 🐸 Like a frog
froggish

froggish

9.9
A rude word for French people
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɔɡɪʃ/
  • Slur
translation icon : gabacho
  • His froggish comments about the French were quite offensive.

Examples

  • Using froggish language in public can be deeply offensive and inappropriate.

  • The article was criticized for its froggish stereotypes and negative tone.

  • He made a froggish remark that upset several people at the party.

  • Many people find his froggish attitude towards French cuisine rude.

  • Some people still use the term froggish to describe the French in a derogatory way.

  • He made a froggish remark about their cuisine, which offended the French guests.

  • The comedian's jokes about the French were filled with froggish stereotypes that did not sit well with his audience.

How Offensive

froggish
  • Slur
9.9
Gallic
1 9.9

Surface Forms

froggish positive

Morphology

froggish = frog (opaque) = frog + ish

Although formed from 'frog' + '-ish', this sense is an ethnic/slang usage (frog → French person) so the meaning is not inferable from the animal sense.

Etymology

Froggish: One common story says English speakers called the French 'frogs', likely from a joke about eating 'frog legs', so froggish became an insulting way to mean 'relating to or like the French'.