frog
See also: Frog and frög
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fɹɒɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /fɹɑɡ/, /fɹɔɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡ, -ɔːɡ
Etymology 1
A frog (amphibian, 1).
The frog (2) of a violin bow.
The frog (5) of a horse's hoof (dark triangular portion of bottom of hoof).
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Some frog (6) designs ("part of railroad switch").
From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, frocga (“frog”), from Proto-West Germanic *froþgō, from Proto-Germanic *fruþgô (“frog”).
Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).
Alternative forms
- frock (dialectal)
Noun
frog (plural frogs)
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- Synonyms: (dialectal) frosh, (dialectal) frosk
- Coordinate terms: pad, paddock
- 2008, Lich King, "Black Metal Sucks", 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.'
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- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) defector: a politician who simply switches between different political parties.
Derived terms
Suffixed forms of frog [noun]
- Frog
- frogess
- frogged
- froggery
- frogging
- froggish
- froggy, Froggy
- froglike
- frogly
Compound words and expressions derived from frog [noun]
- 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
- leapfrogged, leap-frogged
- leapfrogging
- leapfrog, leap-frog
- 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, Telmatobius)
- White's tree frog
- wire frog
- wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)
- wrinkled frogs (Glandirana spp.)
- yellow-legged frogs (Rana spp.)
Related terms
- frosh (dialectal)
Descendants
- → Esperanto: frogo
- → Hawaiian: poloka
- → Irish: frog
Translations
amphibian
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end of a string instrument’s bow
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road — see road
the depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick
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organ in a horse’s foot
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part of a railway
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a type of fishing lure that resembles a frog
politics, Malaysia: defector — see defector
See also
- amphibian
- pad
- paddock
- tadpole
- toad
Verb
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).
Derived terms
- frog stitch
Etymology 2
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
frog (plural frogs, feminine frogette)
- (offensive) A French person.
- Synonyms: baguette, cheese-eating surrender monkey
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
Alternative forms
- Frog
Derived terms
- frogess
- froggy
- froglet
Translations
French person
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See also
- Frenchie
Further reading
- frog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Etymology 3
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A frog (toggle)
Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).
Noun
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.
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Translations
a loop used to attach a scabbard etc. to a belt
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a fastener for clothing consisting of a button that fits through a loop
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Verb
frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)
- 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)
- (transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.
Further reading
frog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “frog”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English frog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fˠɾˠɔɡ]
Noun
frog m or f (genitive singular froig, nominative plural froganna)
- frog (amphibian; organ in a horse’s foot)
Declension
Declension of frog
First declension
Bare forms:
| Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- frogaire (“frogman”)
- frog crainn (“tree frog”)
- frog Góiliat (“Goliath frog”)
- frog nimhe (“poison dart frog”)
- glóthach fhroig, sceathrach fhroig, sceith fhroig (“frog-spawn”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɾoɡ]
Noun
frog (nominative plural frogs)
- frog (amphibian)
Declension
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
See also
- bufod (“toad”)
- mafib (“amphibian”)
- nim (“animal”)
- rosip (“toad”)
- vatanim (“aquatic animal”)