Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Quality or standing as a frog.
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Examples
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Having achieved froghood, he heads off to explore the world and returns with gleeful stories of land-based wonders.
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Yet the Redfins, as typified by Guinevere, have done both, and given time enough, they may emulate or surpass the achievements of larval axolotls, or the astounding egg-producing maggots of certain gnats, thus realizing all the possibilities of froghood while yet cribbed within the lowly casing of a pollywog.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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He had made his leap, he had seen the great world, and was content to stay in his pretty glass house under the big fuchsia tree until he attained the dignity of froghood.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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He had made his leap, he had seen the great world, and was content to stay in his pretty glass house under the big fuchsia tree until he attained the dignity of froghood.
The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903
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