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befrogged

befrogged adjective: adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.

Adjective

befrogged (comparative more befrogged, superlative most befrogged)

  1. Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
    • Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67
    • The season was, in local parlance, "on," the elements were assembled; the big windy hotel, the draughty social hall, swarmed with "types," in Charlotte's constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmatian, Carpathian, violently...1904 November 10, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

Forms of befrogged

comparativemore befrogged
superlativemost befrogged

Origin of befrogged

From be- + frog + -ed.

Questions about befrogged

What does befrogged mean?
Befrogged means adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
What part of speech is befrogged?
Befrogged is an adjective.

Words near befrogged in the dictionary

  1. befringe
  2. befringed
  3. befringes
  4. befringing
  5. befrocked
  6. befrogged
  7. befrost
  8. befrosted
  9. befrosting
  10. befrosts
  11. befroze

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