frogdom
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
frogdom (uncountable)
- The state of being a frog, or of belonging to the world of frogs; frogs, collectively.
- 1870, William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, page 240:
- These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom.
- 2009, Frank H. Cheley, The Three Rivers Kids, page 87:
- No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag.
- 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 181:
- All four of the southern frogs present (all non-tropical native Australian frogs are either southern frogs, a homegrown contribution to world frogdom, or tree frogs) I have heard in my suburban backyard, but the sheer numbers here are thrilling.