Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Froglike.

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a frog

Etymologies

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frog +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • My own name came out in the froggish croak that even I didnt recognize.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • My own name came out in the froggish croak that even I didnt recognize.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • My own name came out in the froggish croak that even I didnt recognize.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • Giuseppe had a reptilian face with slit eyes and a hooked nose blasted by broken veins, but his brother looked more amphibian—froggish and friendly.

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • Giuseppe had a reptilian face with slit eyes and a hooked nose blasted by broken veins, but his brother looked more amphibian—froggish and friendly.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • Giuseppe had a reptilian face with slit eyes and a hooked nose blasted by broken veins, but his brother looked more amphibian—froggish and friendly.

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • Giuseppe had a reptilian face with slit eyes and a hooked nose blasted by broken veins, but his brother looked more amphibian—froggish and friendly.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • Giuseppe had a reptilian face with slit eyes and a hooked nose blasted by broken veins, but his brother looked more amphibian—froggish and friendly.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • The war PC vs Macs is over since windaube froggish idiom can be run on Macs.

    Fantasising 2006

  • One would have sworn that every other British soldier on the battlefield was lounging at his ease, twiddling his thumbs, and that only Armitage, like an avenging angel with glittering sword and flashing eyes and ginger mustaches — though those last were not mentioned in any of the reports — was saving them from the froggish brutes led onto the slaughtering fields by the Corsican monster.

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

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