frog

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Meaning

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.

frog

toad

green frog

anuran

toad frog

Gaul

any kind

tadpole

batrachian

salientian

froggy

French

Frenchman

generic

big

button

green

French person

Frenchwoman

Gallic

grass frog

frog-eater

Frog Mouth

low life

bastard

brock

caitiff

clutch

creep

crud

crum

crump

drip

fucker

gink

gook

grifter

heck

jerk

lowlife

mother fucker

raff

ratfink

riffraff

rip

rotter

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmoe

schmuck

schnook

scum

scum bag

scumbag

scut

shit

slicker

slime

slimebag

smooth operator

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

stinker

thug

turd

douchebag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

ratink

lobster

bullfrog

poisonous insect

retch

brown

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹɒɡ/

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”).