froggy
See also: Froggy
English
Etymology
frog + -y.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɒɡi/, IPA(key): /ˈfɹɑɡi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡi
- Hyphenation: frog‧gy
Noun
froggy (plural froggies)
- (childish or endearing) A frog.
- a. 1600, unknown author, Frog Went a-Courting
- 'Pray, Mistress Mouse, will you give us some beer?
Heigho, says Rowley,
For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.'
- 'Pray, Mistress Mouse, will you give us some beer?
- a. 1900, unknown author, Frogs at School
- Twenty froggies went to school, down beside a rushy pool
Twenty little coats of green, twenty vests all white and clean
- Twenty froggies went to school, down beside a rushy pool
- a. 1600, unknown author, Frog Went a-Courting
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Frenchman.
Adjective
froggy (comparative froggier or more froggy, superlative froggiest or most froggy)
- Froglike.
- Suffering from a frog in one's throat; hoarse.
- 1938, The American Legion Magazine:
- Absolutely voiceless and baggy-eyed from hours of sour singing, no sleep, and a froggy throat from yelling in ego to be heard atop the rest.
- 1938, The American Legion Magazine:
- (slang) Inclined to fight; aggressive.
- 1947, Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn, Simon and Schuster:
- Now jump, if you still feel froggy.
- 1947, Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn, Simon and Schuster:
- (slang) Energetic or strong.
- 2010, Paul J. Roarke, Corps Strength: A Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant's Program for Elite Fitness, Ulysses Press:
- On the days that you're feeling "froggy" (meaning you have plenty of energy) […]
- 2010, Paul J. Roarke, Corps Strength: A Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant's Program for Elite Fitness, Ulysses Press:
Synonyms
- froggish
- froglike
- frogly
- ranine
Derived terms
- froggily
See also
- anuran
- batrachian
- salientian
- toadish
- toadlike
- toadly
- toady