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- noun humorous An
English person (as viewed by the French).
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Examples
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For the best part of the week, during which I stayed at the Dai butzu, I only had an occasional glance at a slice of nondescript meat, served one day as "rosbif," and the next day as "mutin shops," but unfortunately so leathery that no Sheffield blade could possibly divide it, and no human tooth nor jaw, however powerful, could masticate it.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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The idiot asked us if we meant "rosbif," or "biftik," or "palal" -- that's all the English they seemed to know, and think English fellows feed off nothing else.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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: when Thatcher feasted Mitterrand or Chirac 'rosbif' was always on the menu.
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This is directly behind the chuck, and is sometimes called rosbif in Mexico.
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef 2008
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Anyway, it is surely impossible to imagine any French naval chef agreeing to allow his galley stoves to be occupied for half the year by a "rosbif."
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Bone-in rib roast (standing rib roast) is cut from the upper part of the rib section, though this will most likely have to be specially ordered as trozo de rosbif or costillar.
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef 2008
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Anyway, it is surely impossible to imagine any French naval chef agreeing to allow his galley stoves to be occupied for half the year by a "rosbif."
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This is directly behind the chuck, and is sometimes called rosbif in Mexico.
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef 2008
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Bone-in rib roast (standing rib roast) is cut from the upper part of the rib section, though this will most likely have to be specially ordered as trozo de rosbif or costillar.
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef 2008
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July 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm in fact i iz mainly conzerted with teh womerns and teh rosbif
We are one deep - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
sionnach commented on the word rosbif
roast beef
July 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word rosbif
Humorous or derogatory?
May 16, 2022