Meaning of Johnny Crapaud | Babel Free

Definitions

A Frenchman.

derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

Examples

“"I say, you fellows, Johnny Crapaud says he can play cricket!” exclaimed Crow one morning. “What fun!””

“The French were very sore about the unceremonious manner in which the Dual Control was dispensed with. Their simple statesmen seemed to think that we, who had complacently picked the chestnuts out of the fire, were going to share them. Earl Granville, in kindness of heart, offered Johnny Crapaud a consolation sop in the form of the Presidency of the Public Debt Department, which was sulkily refused, and Johnny Crapaud retired to his tent, thence to cause us petty annoyances whenever he could.”

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