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frog

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See also: Frog and frög

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) (amphibian, 1).
The frog (2) of a violin bow.
The frog (5) of a horse's hoof (dark triangular portion of bottom of hoof).
Some frog (6) designs ("part of railroad switch").

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki.

Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).

Sense 5 is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).

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Noun

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frog (plural frogs)

  2. Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
    • 2008, Lich King, “Black Metal Sucks”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:
      Awesome leather armbands with spikes like two feet long / Hair is parted down the middle, frowning like a frog
  4. (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
  6. (Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
  8. The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
  10. An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
    Coordinate term: sole
  12. (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
    Synonym: common crossing
  13. (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
    • 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:
      `What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
  14. (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
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Suffixed forms of frog [noun]
Compound words and expressions derived from frog [noun]
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Descendants
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  • → Esperanto: frogo
  • → Hawaiian: poloka
  • → Irish: frog
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Verb

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frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. To hunt or trap frogs.
  2. (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
  3. (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
  4. (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
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Etymology 2

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From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare Kraut (“German person”) and French rosbif (“English person”) (from roast beef), with similar food etymologies.

Noun

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frog (plural frogs)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
    Synonyms: baguette, cheese-eating surrender monkey, Frencher, Frenchy
  2. (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
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Etymology 3

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A frog (toggle)
A sword and its scabbard, which is fitted with a frog.

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).

Noun

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frog (plural frogs)

  2. A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
  3. An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
    • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo:
      The visitor was about fifty-two years of age, dressed in one of the green surtouts, ornamented with black frogs, which have so long maintained their popularity all over Europe.
  4. A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
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Verb

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frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

Etymology 4

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Supposedly from ribbit (“sound made by a frog”) sounding similar to "rip it".

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frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. (transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.

Etymology 5

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Probably a minced oath alteration of fuck.

Verb

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frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
    If you see a necktie hanging on the door, don't knock. I'll be in there frogging someone.

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Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English frog.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frog m or f (genitive singular froig, nominative plural froganna)

  1. frog (amphibian; organ in a horse’s foot)

Declension

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Declension of frog (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative frog froganna
vocative a fhroig a fhroganna
genitive froig froganna
dative frog froganna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an frog na froganna
genitive an fhroig na bhfroganna
dative leis an bhfrog
don fhrog 		leis na froganna

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of frog
radical lenition eclipsis
frog fhrog bhfrog

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Volapük

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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frog (nominative plural frogs)

  1. frog (amphibian)

Declension

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Declension of frog
singular plural
nominative frog frogs
genitive froga frogas
dative froge froges
accusative frogi frogis
vocative 1 o frog! o frogs!
predicative 2 frogu frogus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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