Noun: frog
Sample Sentences
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Awesome leather armbands with spikes like two feet long / Hair is parted down the middle, frowning like a frog [2008, Tom Martin, “Black Metal Sucks” (0:26 from the start), in Toxic Zombie Onslaught, performed by Lich King, San Jose: Stormspell Records:]
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`What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.' [1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:]
Nouns inflected like frog
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).
3. Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos). See: Middle English Nouns '
frogge', Old English Nouns '
frocga', Old Norse Nouns '
frauki', Old English Nouns '
frox', English Nouns '
frosh', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βάτραχος'.
Verbs referencing "frog"
Irish Nouns
frog.