frog
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, frocga (“frog”), from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk fraug (“frog”), Old Norse frauki. Related also to English frosk (“frog”), frosh (“frog”), and frock (“frog”).
Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- frock (dialectal)
Noun[edit]
frog (plural frogs)
- 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
- (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.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- Coordinate term: sole
- (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
- (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.'
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) defector: a politician who simply switches between different political parties.
Derived terms[edit]
- African clawed frog
- African painted frog
- a frog in one's throat
- Amazon milk frog
- Archey's frog
- arum frog
- Atlantic Coast leopard frog
- Australian green tree frog
- Australian ground frogs (Myobatrachidae spp.)
- banana frog
- banjo frog
- bell frog
- big-eyed tree frog
- blue frog
- blue-sided leaf frog
- boiling frog
- brown frogs (Rana spp.)
- Budgett's frog
- bullfrog
- bush frog (Hyperoliidae)
- Cambondo screeching frog
- carpenter frog (Lithobates virgatipes)
- Cascades frog (Rana cascadae)
- Chinese edible frog
- chirping frogs (Eleutherodactylus)
- chorus frogs (Pseudacris)
- clawed frogs (Xenopus spp.)
- claw frog
- common frog (Rana temporaria)
- coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui)
- corroboree frog
- crab-eating frog
- crawfish frog (Lithobates areolatus)
- cricket frog (Acris)
- Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii)
- disc-tongued frog (Alytidae)
- eastern banjo frog
- edible frog
- European common brown frog (Rana temporaria)
- European common frog (Rana temporaria)
- fine as frog hair, finer than frog hair
- fishing frog
- fishing-frog
- flying frog
- forest green tree frog
- frog belly
- frogbit
- frog-biting midge
- frog cheese
- frog chorus
- frog-eater
- frogeater, frog eater
- frogeye
- frogeyed
- frog-eyed
- frog-eye salad
- frog face
- frogfish
- frog hair
- froghopper (Cercopoidea)
- frog in a sock
- frog in one's pocket
- frog in one's throat
- frog kick
- frog kingdom
- frog legs
- frog-like
- frog lily (Nuphar or Potamogeton)
- frogman
- frog march
- frogmarch, frog-march
- frogmouth (Podargidae)
- frog orchid (Coeloglossum viride)
- frogpond, frog pond
- frog pose
- frog's-bit
- frog's legs
- frogspawn, frog spawn
- frog speak
- frog-speak
- frog spit
- frog spittle
- frog sticker
- frogstool
- frog-strangler
- frog view
- frog-walk
- frog wedding
- Gaboon forest frog
- Gardiner's Seychelles frog
- ghost frog (Heleophrynidae)
- giant banjo frog
- giant frog
- glass frog (Centrolenidae)
- goliath frog
- gopher frog (Lithobates capito)
- grass frog
- green big-eyed tree frog
- green frog (Lithobates clamitans)
- greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris)
- green tree frog
- hairy frog
- have a frog in one's throat
- horned frog
- ice frog (Amietia vertebralis)
- leaf frog
- leap frog
- leapfrog, leap-frog
- leapfrogged, leap-frogged
- leapfrogging
- leapfrog test, leap-frog test, leap frog test
- leopard frogs (Lithobates spp.)
- litter frog (Megophryidae)
- long-fingered frog
- Malabar flying frog
- male frog test
- marbled frog
- marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus)
- marsupial frog (Amphignathodontidae)
- Mashpi glass frog
- midwife frog
- mink frog (Lithobates septentrionalis)
- mist frog
- moss frog (Rhacophoridae)
- Myers' poison frog
- narrow-mouthed frogs (Microhylidae)
- New Jersey chorus frog
- night frog
- Nouns' glass frog
- Pacman frog
- painted frog (Alytidae)
- paradoxical frog
- parsley frog (Pelodytidae spp.)
- pickerel frog (Lithobates palustris)
- pig frog (Lithobates grylio)
- poison arrow frog
- poison dart frogs (Dendrobates spp.)
- pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae)
- rain frog (Eleutherodactylus spp.)
- red-legged frogs (Rana spp.)
- river frog (Lithobates heckscheri)
- robber frog (Craugastor raniformis)
- screeching frogs (Arthroleptidae)
- sedge frog (Hyperoliidae)
- Seychelles frog (Sooglossus sechellensis)
- shad frog
- sheep frogs (Hypopachus)
- shovelnose frog (Hemisus)
- shrinking frog
- snouted frog
- southern banjo frog
- spotted chirping frog
- squashed frog
- step on a frog
- stick-frog
- stick frog
- tailed frog (Ascaphus spp.)
- Tarahumara frog (Lithobates tarahumarae)
- temple tree frog
- Titicaca frog
- Titicaca water frog
- tomato frog
- tongueless frogs (Pipidae spp.)
- tree frog
- treefrog (Hyla spp.)
- tropical frog (Micrixalus spp.)
- true frogs (Ranidae spp.)
- Tukeit Hill frog (Allophryne ruthveni)
- tusked frog
- water frog (Pelophylax spp., Telmatobius spp.)
- White's tree frog
- wire frog
- wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)
- wrinkled frogs (Glandirana spp.)
- yellow-legged frogs (Rana spp.)
Related terms[edit]
- frosh (dialectal)
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
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Etymology 2[edit]
From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare French rosbif (“English person”), from roast beef, corresponding term for the English, likewise based on stereotypical food; and Kraut for Germans.
Noun[edit]
frog (plural frogs, feminine frogette)
- (offensive) A French person.
- Synonyms: baguette, cheese-eating surrender monkey
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
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Further reading[edit]
- “frog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 3[edit]

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).
Noun[edit]
frog (plural frogs)
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), 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.
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)
Etymology 4[edit]
Supposedly from ribbit (“sound made by a frog”) sounding similar to "rip it".
Verb[edit]
frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)
- (transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.
Further reading[edit]
frog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “frog”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frog m or f (genitive singular froig, nominative plural froganna)
- frog (amphibian; organ in a horse’s foot)
Declension[edit]
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- frog crainn (“tree frog”)
- frog Góiliat (“Goliath frog”)
- frog nimhe (“poison dart frog”)
- frogaire (“frogman”)
- glóthach fhroig, sceathrach fhroig, sceith fhroig (“frog-spawn”)
Mutation[edit]
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
frog | fhrog | bhfrog |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “frog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “frog” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “frog” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Volapük[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frog (nominative plural frogs)
Declension[edit]
See also[edit]
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