frog

See also: Frog and frög

English

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

Pronunciation

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”).

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 the order Anura of short-bodied, tailless amphibians.
    Synonyms: anuran, batrachian
    Hypernyms: lissamphibian < amphibian < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
    Hyponyms: frog (narrow sense), toad
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:1–4:
      1 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, Goe vnto Pharaoh, and say vnto him; Thus sayeth the Lord, Let my people goe, that they may serue me.
      2 And if thou refuse to let them goe, beholde, I will smite all thy borders with frogges.
      3 And the riuer shall bring foorth frogges abundantly, which shall goe vp and come into thine house, and into thy bed-chamber, and vpon thy bed, and into the house of thy seruants, and vpon thy people, and into thine ouens, and into thy kneading troughes.
      4 And the frogges shall come vp both on thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon all thy seruants.
    • 2008, Tom Martin, “Black Metal Sucks” (0:26 from the start), in Toxic Zombie Onslaught‎[1], 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
    2. (often specifically, nontaxonomically) Any member of the order Anura that is not a toad, characterized by smooth skin.
      Hypernyms: anuran, batrachian < lissamphibian < amphibian < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
      Coordinate term: toad
  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.
    • 2017, Violin and Viola Bow hold[2], Katherine Findlay[3]:
      And remember, with the frip, it's just a funny word meaning that[sic] the space between the frog of the bow, and the grip. Just the wooden stick part.
  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
  • → Gilbertese: biraoki, biráoki
  • → Hawaiian: poloka
  • → Irish: frog
  • → Kosraean: fohrohk, fuhrohk
  • → Marshallese: būrọk
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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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Further reading

Etymology 3

A frog (toggle)
A sword and its scabbard, which is fitted with a frog.

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. (ambitransitive) 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.

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English frog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fˠɾˠɔɡ]

Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of frog (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative frog froganna
vocative a fhroig a fhroganna
genitive froig froganna
dative frog froganna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an frog na froganna
genitive an fhroig na bhfroganna
dative leis an bhfrog
don fhrog 		leis na froganna

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

Mutated forms of frog
radical lenition eclipsis
frog fhrog bhfrog

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “frog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “frog”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • “frog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fɾoɡ]

Noun

frog (genitive froga, plural frogs)

  1. frog (amphibian)

Declension

Declension of frog
Singular Plural
Nominative frog frogs
Genitive froga frogas
Dative froge froges
Accusative frogi frogis
Predicative1 frogu frogus
Vocative o frog o frogs
  1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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