frog

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
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. (slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
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).
7. A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
8. (slang) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.

Verb

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

Verb

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

Verb

To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.

Verb

To have sex with; fuck.

Concepten

kikker

🐸

kikvors

🐸

vors

🐸

kikvorsachtigen

Kikvorsachtigen

padden

puntstuk

🐸

Synonyms

toad

green frog

Gaul

toad frog

anuran

any kind

generic

salientian

French

🇫🇷/🇲🇫/🇬🇵/🇲🇶/🇵🇲/🇷🇪/🇹🇫/🇾🇹

Frenchman

big

froggy

batrachian

tadpole

fucker

gink

gook

green

grifter

heck

jerk

lobster

🦞

lowlife

low life

raff

retch

riffraff

rip

rotter

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scum

scut

shit

💩

slicker

slime

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

stinker

thug

turd

French person

Gallic

ratfink

scumbag

poisonous insect

smooth operator

schmoe

grass frog

mother fucker

scum bag

slimebag

Frog Mouth

douchebag

frog-eater

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

ratink

bastard

brock

brown

bullfrog

button

caitiff

clutch

creep

crud

crum

crump

drip

Frenchwoman

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/fɹɒɡ/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Middelengels: frogge

Inherited from Oudengels: frogga

Cognate with Noors - Nynorsk: fraug

Cognate with Oudnoors: frauki

Cognate with Engels: frosk

Cognate with Saterfries: Poage

In summary

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk fraug (“frog”), Old Norse frauki. Related also to English frosk (“frog”), frosh (“frog”), and frock (“frog”).
Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).