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frog

UK/fɹɒɡ/

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Australia/fɹɔɡ/

frog noun: any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.

frog: any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop
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Noun (1)

frog (plural frogs)

  1. Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
    • 1 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, Goe vnto Pharaoh, and say vnto him; Thus sayeth the Lord, Let my people goe, that they may serue me.
      2 And if thou refuse to let them goe, beholde, I will smite all thy borders with frogges.
      3 And the riuer shall bring foorth frogges abundantly, which shall goe vp...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:1–4
    • Awesome leather armbands with spikes like two feet long / Hair is parted down the middle, frowning like a frog2008, Tom Martin, “Black Metal Sucks” (0:26 from the start), in Toxic Zombie Onslaught, performed by Lich King, San Jose: Stormspell Records
    Synonyms:
    anuran, batrachian
    1. (often, specifically) A member of this class that is not a toad.
  2. The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
  3. (Cockney, slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
    Synonyms:
    road
  4. The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
  5. An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
  6. The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
    Synonyms:
    common crossing
  7. The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
  8. A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
    • `What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40
  9. (Malaysia, derogatory, slang) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.

Verb (1)

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. To hunt or trap frogs.
  2. (transitive) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
  3. (transitive) To spatchcock (a chicken).
  4. (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.

Noun (2)

frog (plural frogs)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, slur) A French person.
    • Yes. Can't trust the frogs.1982 November 18, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Challenge”, in Yes, Minister, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne)
  2. (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.

Noun (3)

frog (plural frogs)

  1. A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
  2. An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
    • The visitor was about fifty-two years of age, dressed in one of the green surtouts, ornamented with black frogs, which have so long maintained their popularity all over Europe.1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
  3. A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.

Verb (2)

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

Verb (3)

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.

Verb (4)

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

  1. (ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
    • If you see a necktie hanging on the door, don't knock. I'll be in there frogging someone.

Noun (4) capitalized: FROG

FROG (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of fig raspberry orange ginger: a jam or other food preparation containing the eponymous ingredients or made with a jam containing the ingredients.

Noun (5) capitalized: Frog

Frog (plural Frogs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of frog (“French person”).

frog meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

frog in Hindi

amphibian
मेंढक meṇḍhak, मेंढकी meṇḍhkī, मेंडक meṇḍak, मेंडुक meṇḍuk, दादुर dādur, मंडूक maṇḍūk

frog in Tamil

amphibian
தவளை tavaḷai

frog in Marathi

amphibian
बेडूक beḍūk

frog in Urdu

amphibian
مینْڈَک menḍak, مینْڈُک menḍuk, مینْڈَھک menḍhak, مینْڈْھکی menḍhkī
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frog in Bengali
ব্যাঙ bêṅ
frog in Telugu
కప్ప kappa, మండూకము maṇḍūkamu
frog in Malayalam
തവള tavaḷa
frog in Kannada
ಕಪ್ಪೆ kappe
frog in Punjabi
ਡੱਡੂ ḍaḍḍū, ڈڈو ḍaḍḍū
frog in Gujarati
દેડકો deḍko
frog in Odia
ବେଁଗ bẽga
frog in Sanskrit
मण्डूक maṇḍūka, भेक bheka
frog in Sinhala
මැඬියා mæⁿḍiyā
frog in Assamese
ভেঁকুলী bhẽkuli, ভেঁকোলা bhẽküla, বেং beṅ
frog in Nepali
भ्यागुता, फ्रग
frog in Pashto
چونګښه čungǝ́x̌a
frog in Tagalog
palaka
frog in Arabic
ضِفْدِع ḍifdiʕ, ضَفْدَع ḍafdaʕ, ضِفْدَع ḍifdaʕ, ضفدع ḍufḍaʕ
frog in Malay
katak
frog in Indonesian
kodok, jarum wesel
frog in Persian
وَک wak, بَقَه قُورْبَاغَه baqa, قورْباغِه ġurbâġe, بَک bak
frog in Thai
กบ gòp
frog in Vietnamese
ếch, nhái, ngoé
frog in Myanmar
ဖား hpa:
Dzongkha
སྦལཔ sbalp

Examples of frog in a sentence

  • Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
  • Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!
  • The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.

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Synonyms of frog

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Forms of frog

Noun
pluralfrogs
alternative formFrog
pluralFrogs
Verb
third-person singular presentfrogs
present participlefrogging
past participlefrogged
pastfrogged

Plural of frog: frogs

Origin of frog

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”). Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”). Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).

From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare Kraut (“German person”) and French rosbif (“English person”) (from roast beef), with similar food etymologies.

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).

Words formed from frog

Phrases with frog

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Words that rhyme with frog

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Questions about frog

What does frog mean?
Frog means any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
What is frog in Hindi?
Frog in Hindi is मेंढक (meṇḍhak), मेंढकी (meṇḍhkī), मेंडक (meṇḍak). See Frog meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is frog?
Frog can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce frog?
Frog is pronounced /fɹɒɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of frog?
The plural of frog is frogs.

Words near frog in the dictionary

  1. Froemming
  2. Froemmings
  3. froes
  4. Froese
  5. Froeses
  6. frog
  7. frog and toad
  8. frog and toads
  9. frog butt
  10. frog butts
  11. frog cheese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frog (page history and authors); FROG (page history and authors); Frog (page history and authors); frog (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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