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defrog

defrog verb: to rid of frogs.

Verb

defrog (third-person singular simple present defrogs, present participle defrogging, simple past and past participle defrogged)

  1. (nonce-word, transitive) To rid of frogs.
    • Back in 1778, the citizens of Boston gave a banquet in honor of the French admiral, D'Estainge, who had recently arrived in New England to help the Americans in their war effort. The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city. He served...1981, Gus McLeavy, Bathroom Almanac, Frederick Fell Pub, →ISBN
    • Throat-clearing, preparatory defrogging of the throat, may itself be isolated as a marker of the public speaker, or the speaker on the verge of saying something rather difficult (preparing the voice box and dealing pre-emptively with nervousness).2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head, page 80

Examples of defrog in a sentence

  • The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city.1981, Gus McLeavy, Bathroom Almanac, Frederick Fell Pub, →ISBN:
  • It was a live broadcast, some talk show; evidently Prentis had managed to get himself defrogged.2015, Nancy Springer, Fair Peril:
  • After feeding the cats and defrogging the litter box, she grabs her winter coat, hat, and scarf.2015, Sherry Levesque, Demented:

Forms of defrog

third-person singular presentdefrogs
present participledefrogging
past participledefrogged
pastdefrogged

Origin of defrog

From de- + frog.

Questions about defrog

What does defrog mean?
Defrog means to rid of frogs.
How do you use defrog in a sentence?
The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city.
What part of speech is defrog?
Defrog is a verb.
What is the past tense of defrog?
The past tense of defrog is defrogged.

Words near defrog in the dictionary

  1. defrock
  2. defrocked
  3. defrocking
  4. defrockings
  5. defrocks
  6. defrog
  7. defrogged
  8. defrogging
  9. defrogs
  10. Defronzo
  11. defrost

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