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Frog

noun

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species. Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, salientian, toad, toad frog.

A person of French descent. Synonym: Gaul.

A decorative loop of braid or cord.

verb

Hunt frogs for food.

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"Frog" Quotes from Famous Books

... stand that kind of dodge. Won't I do? I don't think your weight will quite squash me," he returned, placing himself in leap-frog position, and I stepped on to his back and slid from there to the ground ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... to that Johnbull; he say to me that I am a frog, and other injuries, while he lay yet more wood on ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers

... an expatriated frog," cried Rooney, staggering under the weight of an enormous pot, "come here, won't 'ee, an' lind a hand. Wan would think it was yer own weddin' was goin' on. Here, slew round the crane, ye ...

— Wrecked but not Ruined • R.M. Ballantyne

... her in his arms and placed kisses on her eyelids. Night was descending, the first stars were trembling among the branches. In the damp grass sighed the frog's flutes. They went ...

— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France

... lines of camp-fires begin to gleam from the transient Bedouin villages. Our white tents are pitched in a flowery meadow, beside a low-voiced stream, and as we fall asleep the night air is trembling with the shrill, innumerable brek-ek-ek-coax-coax of the frog chorus. ...

— Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land - Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit • Henry Van Dyke

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