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Etymology

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From frog +‎ -some.

Adjective

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frogsome (comparative more frogsome, superlative most frogsome)

  1. Characteristic of frogs or marked by froggishness; frogly
    • 1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, Bell and Wing:
      Never was he made to strut
      More than crab or mariput;
      Could not copy elegance
      In his frogsome circumstance; []
    • 1996, George MacDonald Fraser, The Pyrates:
      "Shalt along wi' Happy Dan, in irons, so that if so be ye've lied to us, and Vanity wench proves to be otherwhere than Aves, he may dispose o' ye right painful an' slow, wi' Frogsome tricks and torments — " But at this his followers cried out.
    • 2016, NÉPRA[1]:
      We cannot wait for the summer! There are so many frogsome new things that we have planned.

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