For many centuries there has been a rivalry between the French and the English resulting from the way that their histories have interacted from the Battle of Hastings, to Crecy and Agincourt, through Napoleon, Trafalgar, World War II to the Olympic games in 2012.

As a result the word "French" in English (primarily as used by native speakers in the UK and surprisingly often in the US as well) is often used to derogatively describe anything which is to be thought of as stinky, over-stated or rated, as well those things that are illegal, immoral or just generally undesirable; the French respond by often using anglais in similar senses. Thus we see:

• French - a racial stereotype of one who is either sexy or dirty
• French - to participate in oral sex
• French - to re-arrange a person's bedclothes by way of a joke (as in apple pie bed) (US)
• French 75 - a type of cocktail - named after a French gun dating from World War I
• French ache/disease - syphilis or other veneral disease
• French active - in gay-sex - the passive partner in fellatio (US)
• French article - a prostitute
• French article/cream/elixir - smuggled brandy
• French aunt - a flighty type of woman (US)
• French bath - the use of perfume as a deodorant in lieu of washing or bathing - especially in gay circles. (US)
• French bathe - to have a French bath (see above)
• French blues - a mixture of methaqualone and amphetamine
• French by injection - a skilled practitioner of fellatio
• French cannibal/marbles - veneral disease
• French cap - a condom (US)
• French culture - fellatio
• French deck - a pack of (playing) cards which is decorated with smutty pictures
• French dip - a female's precoital vaginal fluid
• French dressing - semen (US)
• French drive - a mis-hit at cricket
• French embassy - a place of frequent (gay) sexual activity
• French filing - that kind of filing found on the floor and in piles rather than in the proper files
• French fried ice cream - semen (US)
• French fries - chips or crack cocaine
• French fuck/wank - masturbation of a man's penis between a woman's breasts -- in French, the equivalent colloquialism is branlette espagnole, Spanish wank
• French handshake - the showing of sexual interest by way of a handshake
• French harp - a harmonica
• French head job - fellatio
• French inhale - the exhalation of cigarette smoke out through one's mouth, and subsequent inhalation through the nose. (US)
• French kiss - where the tongue is inserted into the amore's mouth
• French language expert - an experienced fellator
• French language training - the teaching of fellatio - presumably by an expert
• French leave - to be absent without leave (AWOL) -- in French, the equivalent expression is filer à l'anglaise, in other words, to leave like an English
• French letter - a condom -- in French, the equivalent colloquialism is capote anglaise, that is, the English hood
• French loaf - £4
• French love - fellatio
• French passive - a fellator
• French pea soup - a French immigrant (US + Canada)
• French photographer - a gay photographer
• French pig - syphilis
• French pigeon - a bird shot out of season - i.e. the work of a bounder!
• French postcard - a postcard containing smutty or erotic pictures
• French pox - syphilis
• French prints - exciting but unusual heterosexual based pornography
• French renovating pills - a pill to trigger an abortion
• French revolution - the culture that promoted gay living and values
• French safe - a condom
• French screwdriver - a hammer - thought to be because of the Frenchman's perceived inability to perform even basic tasks correctly
• French stuff - pornography or other unusual activities
• French tickler - a condom
• French tricks - fellatio
• French vanilla - any sexy white woman (US)
• French vice (the) - fellatio or cunnilingus
• French walk - the way one conducts himself on one's forceable ejection from a bar
• French way - sodomy -- in French, the equivalent colloquialism involves the Greek people
• Frencher - one who enjoys oral sex
• Frenchery - a brothel
• Frenchman - a veneral disease
• Frenchman - any type of foreigner
• Frenchman - one who will fellate for money
• Frenchman (the) - any form of illegal narcotic drug

Also

• Frog/Froggy/Froggee - a French person (often used in Canada)
• Froggish - like a Frenchman
• Cheese eating surrender monkeys - describing French defeat in World War II - originally from the animated US TV show "The Simpsons."
• In the United States and the United Kingdom, the expression "Pardon my French" is used as a mock apology for an obscene utterance.

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