单词 | froglander |
释义 | † Froglandern. slang (chiefly derogatory). Obsolete. A native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a Dutch person (cf. frog n.1 9).In quot. 1693 perhaps: a foreigner. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [noun] > the Dutch > native or inhabitant of Holland Hollandera1549 Netherlander1555 Hans1569 Low Dutchman1576 butterbox1595 Dutchman1596 Statesman1603 hogan1649 frog1652 hogen mogen1652 Froglander1673 sooterkin1680 mynheer1701 Dutcher1818 1673 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1870) I. 591 Sweet little Devill thou shal't haue my prayer A poor distressed Froglander to spare. 1693 J. Knight in Wks. G. Villiers (1715) II. 304 There is [no] entring in the Courts of St. James and Whitehall, the Palaces of our Hereditary Kings, for the great Noise and Croaking of the Frog-Landers. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Frog-landers, Dutch-men. 1713 J. Withers Dutch Better Friends than French 33 The next Objection against our Protestant Allies is, That they are Rivals with us in our Trade, and..that if these Froglanders were once crush'd, the Trade of the World would be our own. 1715 Britons Strike Home 30 Every body that knows me, know well enough that I am no great Admirer either of a Fr—ch-man or a Froglander. 1782 J. Ritson Let. 7 June (1833) I. 51 These confounded Froglanders, you see, will not make peace with us. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Frog-landers, Dutchmen in colloquial language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1673 |
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