cheese monkey

English

Etymology

From cheese-eating surrender monkey, a term coined in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cheese monkey (plural cheese monkeys)

(slang, derogatory, humorous, uncommon) A French person.
- 2003 March 13, Orchid, “OT: naked war protests”, in alt.games.diablo‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
  > Ahem, I'm not French ;-)
  
  Darn, right you're not! You used to be a pure cheese monkey. Now, you're simply pure spud.
- 2004 June 20, Jones, “OK, so no WMD and now no link between Iraq and Al-q. My question is........”, in rec.music.beatles‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
  You'll notice a common cause among all international liberals--the sheep fucker in Australia (192 Day Road, Sydney), the cheese monkey in France, John Kerry--they're all together somehow, all operating along similar lines of force. Is it love of America that unites them? No? Then what is it?
- 2004 September 18, Roedy Green, “Bush isolates more and more the USA in front of the world”, in alt.politics.bush‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
  Republicans don't deny Bush has isolated the USA. However, they say "Fuck the world. Fuck the UN. The French are surrendering cheese monkeys. The Canadian are cheeseheads, the .... "
- 2007 May 7, dapra, “The French Revolution”, in us.military.army‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
  > Vive la France!
  >
  
  Viva for the cheese monkeys? That's how you must have call them in 2003.
- 2013, Jock Cranley, quotee, Grand Theft Auto V‎^[5], scene: Blaine County Talk Radio:
  So what I'm gonna propose as governor of this state is that we plan a massive invasion force and go ahead and invade France. Because if there's one country we can beat in a goddamn arm-wrestle it's them limp-wristed patronizing cheese monkeys.