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See also: Frog and frög

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”).

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

Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).

Alternative forms

Noun

frog (plural frogs)

  2. Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
    • 2008, Tom Martin, “Black Metal Sucks” (0:26 from the start), in Toxic Zombie Onslaught‎, performed by Lich King, San Jose: Stormspell Records:
      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) Synonym of road; clipping of less common 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
  14. (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
  15. (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.'
  16. (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
Derived terms
Suffixed forms of frog [noun]
Compound words and expressions derived from frog [noun]
Descendants
  • → Esperanto: frogo
  • → Hawaiian: poloka
  • → Irish: frog
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Verb

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.
Derived terms
  • frog stitch

Etymology 2

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

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

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

Noun

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.
Translations

Verb

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

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

Verb

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

Probably a minced oath alteration of fuck.

Verb

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English frog.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Declension

More information bare forms, singular ...

Derived terms

  • frog crainn (“tree frog”)
  • frog Góiliat (“Goliath frog”)
  • frog nimhe (“poison dart frog”)
  • frogaire (“frogman”)
  • glóthach fhroig, sceathrach fhroig, sceith fhroig (“frog-spawn”)

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

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

Pronunciation

Noun

frog (nominative plural frogs)

  1. frog (amphibian)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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

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