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frog

1  [frog, frawg] noun, verb, frogged, frog⋅ging, adjective
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–noun
1. any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
2. Also called true frog, ranid. any frog of the widespread family Ranidae, most members of which are semiaquatic and have smooth, moist skin and relatively long hind legs used for leaping. Compare toad (def. 2).
3. a slight hoarseness, usually caused by mucus on the vocal cords: a frog in the throat.
4. (often initial capital letter) Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a French person or a person of French descent.
5. a small holder made of heavy material, placed in a bowl or vase to hold flower stems in position.
6. a recessed panel on one of the larger faces of a brick or the like.
7. Music. nut (def. 11b).
–verb (used without object)
8. to hunt and catch frogs.
–adjective
9. (often initial capital letter) Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. French or Frenchlike.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME frogge, OE frogga, frocga; cf. dial., ME frosh, ON froskr, OHG frosk (G Frosch); (defs. 4, 9) because Frenchmen were stereotypically thought of as eating frogs; (defs. 5, 6) of unclear derivation and perh. of distinct orig.

Related forms:
froglike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

frog 
O.E. frogga, a dim. of frox, forsc, frosc "frog," from P.Gmc. *fruska-z (cf. O.N. froskr, M.Du. vorsc, Ger. Frosch "frog"), probably lit. "hopper" (cf. Skt. provate "hops," Rus. prygat "to hop, jump"). The L. word (rana) is imitative of croaking. As a derogatory term for "Frenchman," 1778 (short for frog-eater), but before that (1652) it meant "Dutch" (from frog-land "marshy land"). To have a frog in the throat "hoarseness" is from 1909. Frogman "scuba diver in rubber suit" is from 1945. Frog-march (1871) originated among London police and referred to their method of moving "a drunken or refractory prisoner" by carrying him face-down between four people, each holding a limb; the connection with frog perhaps being the notion of going along belly-down. By the 1930s, the verb was used in ref. to the much more efficient (but less frog-like) method of getting someone in an arm-behind-the-back hold and hustling him or her along like that.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: frog
Pronunciation: 'frog, 'fräg
Function: noun
1 : any of various smooth-skinned web-footed largely aquatic tailless agile leapingamphibians (as of the suborder Diplasiocoela)
2 : the triangular elastic horny pad in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse
3 : a condition in thethroat that produces hoarseness frog in his throat>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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