Frenchman
A man of French birth or nationality.
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Former Soudal Quick-Step rider Antoine Huby is the latest former WorldTour rider to head to Asia to continue his career. The 25-year-old Frenchman has signed for continental team 7Eleven Cliqq Roadbike Philippines.
A large beardy Frenchman called me 'young man' and you have no idea how hard I had to stop myself from going into subby boy mode right in front of my colleagues 🥵
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A home-made tool used by bricklayers to cut excess mortar from newly pointed brickwork.
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(UK) The red-legged partridge.
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A man of French birth or nationality.
“Former Soudal Quick-Step rider Antoine Huby is the latest former WorldTour rider to head to Asia to continue his career. The 25-year-old Frenchman has signed for continental team 7Eleven Cliqq Roadbike Philippines.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A large beardy Frenchman called me 'young man' and you have no idea how hard I had to stop myself from going into subby boy mode right in front of my colleagues 🥵”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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- countryman67%
Somebody from a certain country.
- Frenchy67%
(slang, sometimes, derogatory) A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
- Englishman65%
A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent or naturalisation.
- countryman64%
Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.