befrogged

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

be- +‎ frog +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

befrogged (comparative more befrogged, superlative most befrogged)

  1. Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
    • 1890, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 4, in The Sign of the Four, London: Spencer Blackett:
      Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with astrakhan collar and cuffs.
    • 1904 November 10, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
      The season was, in local parlance, "on," the elements were assembled; the big windy hotel, the draughty social hall, swarmed with "types," in Charlotte's constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmatian, Carpathian, violently exotic and nostalgic, was distinguished as struggling against the perpetual popping of corks.