rosbif

Borrowed from French rosbif, from English roast beef. 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.

Borrowed from French rosbif, from English roast beef.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˌrɔzˈbif]

rosbif m (plural rosbifs)

1. roast beef

• “rosbif”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English roast beef, stereotypical food of the English.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔs.bif/

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rosbif m (plural rosbifs)

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

   Synonym: angliche

• → Catalan: rosbif
• → English: rosbif
• → Portuguese: rosbife
• → Russian: ро́стбиф (róstbif)
• → Turkish: rozbif

• “rosbif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English roast beef.

rosbif m (invariable)

1. roast beef

• sfibro, sfibrò

Borrowed from French rosbif, from English roast beef.

rosbif n (plural rosbifuri)

1. roast beef

Borrowed from English roast beef.

• IPA^(key): /rosˈbif/ [rozˈβ̞if]
• Rhymes: -if
• Syllabification: ros‧bif

rosbif m (plural rosbifs)

1. roast beef

• “rosbif”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024