[f. FROG1 + -ERY.]
1. An assemblage of frogs, frogs collectively.
1785. Sara Fielding, Ophelia, II. ii. The concert, of which the froggery made the bass.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LI. 47. A thrush, who is watching the froggery from above.
2. A place where frogs are kept or abound.
1763. Eliz. Carter, in Pennington’s Memoirs (1808), I. 335. A very high causeway, with a perpendicular descent on each side to the toaderies and frogeries below.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 695. He had what he called a Froggery and Toadery at the bottom of his orchard.
1871. Echo, 14 Jan. Mr. … confesses to have actually kept a ‘froggery’ for his own private consumption.
