Definition of "rosbif" [rosbif]

• An English person (as viewed by the French). (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• ": when Thatcher feasted Mitterrand or Chirac 'rosbif' was always on the menu."