1438: froggie Nov 18, 2018

Now, a pejorative for French people, though fairly harmless now, is 'froggie'. It is said to have come from the common trope of French peasants eating frogs, but this was not the first use of the pejorative 'froggie' in English's history. Earlier than this, it was used to refer to the Dutch, as they were caricatured as swamp-dwellers; this changed after the Anglo-Dutch Wars, after which point France became Britain's main enemy, rather than the Dutch.

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