Meaning

noun any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

noun a person of French descent

noun a decorative loop of braid or cord

originFrom Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”). Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”). Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).

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