Yellow-bellies

Frogs, fenmen. The Mexicans are so called.

“When the Queen’s Prize was won at Wimbledon, July 21st, 1885, by Sergeant Bulmer, 2nd Lincoln, his victory was hailed with ‘Well done, yellow-belly!ʹ in allusion to his being a Lincolnshire man.”—Notes and Queries, August 22nd, 1885, p. 146.

“Ah, then, agin, it kin scarce be Mexikins neyther. It ur too fur noʹth for any oʹ them yellow-bellies.”—Coptain Mayne Reid: The War Trail, chap. lxxi.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.