frogg

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Back-formation from froggery.

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frogg (third-person singular simple present froggs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To impersonate (someone) by froggery.
    • 1997 June 18, Janice in NYC, quoting Thomas Gyoeroeg, “Re: I've Fallen, And I Can't Get Up”, in rec.motorcycles[1] (Usenet):
      BTW, don't try to frogg me any more and stop using my .sig, OK? ¶ [Damn froggers, can't do anything right...]
    • 2008 May 24, Bertie the Bunyip, “Re: Another forged post”, in news.groups[2] (Usenet):
      But just using someone's name is never forgery. It's a common thing to frogg someone's name to get him to squeal on endlessly about it, but only the most clueless ever fall for that gambit.