rosbif

French rosbif. Doublet of roast beef.

rosbif (plural rosbifs)

1. (humorous) An English person (as viewed by the French).
   • 1938, Neil Harmon Swanson, The forbidden ground (page 85)

     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.

   • 2009, Andy Roberts, Flying the Flag (page 233)

     France demonstrate the entente cordiale towards the rosbifs.

English roast beef, stereotypical food of the English.

Compare frog (“French person”), from frog legs, corresponding English term for French, likewise based on food.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔs.bif/

rosbif m (plural rosbifs)

1. roast beef
2. (derogatory, ethnic slur) an English person

• (English person): buveur de thé

• (English person): frog (of French, by English)

• “rosbif” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English roast beef

rosbif m (invariable)

1. roast beef

• sfibro, sfibrò

English roast beef

rosbif m (plural rosbifs)

1. roast beef