froglike
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English[edit]
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- Hyphenation: frog‧like
Adjective[edit]
froglike (comparative more froglike, superlative most froglike)
- Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
- 1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, published 1955, page 316:
- Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear.
- 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Maracot Deep[1]:
- I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it.
- a froglike croak
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four[2], Part One, Chapter 5:
- Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.
- 1988, Yasunari Kawabata, “Samurai Descendant”, in Lane Dunlop, J. Martin Holman, San Francisco, transl., Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, North Point Press, page 133:
- It was the typical chatter of the moment when each woman was showing off her baby, held against her froglike belly.
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similar to a frog
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Adverb[edit]
froglike (not comparable)
- In a froglike way
- to hop froglike
- 1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes[3], London: Murray, published 1927:
- In all our adventures I do not know that I have ever seen a more strange sight than this impassive and still dignified figure crouching frog-like upon the ground and goading to a wilder exhibition of passion the maddened hound, which ramped and raged in front of him, by all manner of ingenious and calculated cruelty.