froggess

Noun

frogess (plural frogesses)

1. A female frog (amphibian).
   • The night was warm, the pool was still, / No sound was heard from lake or hill, / Save where, upon a log decayed, / A bull-frog croaked his serenade: / Wake, frogess of my love, awake, / And listen to my song; / The heron roosts far from the lake, / The pickerel his rest doth take / The water-weeds...1848, Fitch W[aterman] Taylor, “The Bull-frogs’ Serenade”, in A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate Columbia; […], 9th edition, volume I, New...
2. (offensive, rare) A Frenchwoman.
   • Do Frogs like children? I am not terribly convinced they do. Before I get pelted with tomatoes by indignant Frogesses, could I simply ask you to draw your own conclusion from the large number of abusive terms used to describe children? Our “brats” is nothing compared with the variety of French...1986, Genevière Edis, ““Le Français méprise la jeunesse””, in Merde Encore!: More of the Real French You Were Never Taught at School, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, published 1998, →ISBN, chapter X...