frog

Anlam (İngilizce)

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.

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Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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”).