Johnny Crapaud

English Noun Johnny Crapaud en offensive derogatory ethnic slur A Frenchman. en 1887-07 Our Cricket-Match at Sandilands Henry Frith The Boy's Own Paper Toronto Warwick & Sons 101 https://archive.org/details/boysownpaper101unse 579 Canadian reprint of volume 9, number 438 (June 4, 1887) "I say, you fellows, Johnny Crapaud says he can play cricket!” exclaimed Crow one morning. “What fun!” en 1901 Edward Vizetelly Cairo After the Occupation From Cyprus to Zanzibar, by the Egyptian Delta https://archive.org/details/fromcyprustozanz00vizerich/ 231 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. en France Personifications