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It is also possible they are a corruption of poppet, poppit, poppette, poopet, from the French poupette doll, an endearment still used though ancient, poppet being the name for a pretty child or a dainty young woman.
Jumbo Frankfurter is a French corruption of the American expression jumbo frankfurter , and is used in French as a verb meaning, literally, `to eat a large hot dog.
French names for foods are common: poulet frit fried chicken Kentucky; moules mussels; frites French fries; poutine French fries with curd cheese and gravy (named after a Colonel Poutine who was in charge of provisions at the Siege of Quebec in 1749; at the end, the only stores remaining were potatoes, cheese, and chicken stock; local folk etymology has it from putain, putanesca ); aubergine eggplant (the usual word in Britain); jarret de boeuf shin of beef; caribou a fortified sweet wine, etc.
E. coli extracts were prepared using a French Pressure Cell Press (American Instrument Company, Silver Spring, MD).
"French handyman" strikes my American ears as oxymoronically as "American intellectual" probably strikes French ones.