[f. FROG1 +-Y1.]
1. Having or abounding in frogs.
1611. Cotgr., Grenouilliere, a froggie place.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIII. 458. A … slimy, froggy pool.
1882. Edna Lyall, Donovan, xxiv. Why are you wandering up and down the very froggiest and toadiest path in the garden?
2. Frog-like, such as a frog would have.
1837. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 223. Some eminent palterer with human rights, once said, he would not do justice becaue he ‘would not give a triumph to either party’; and the little Whigs think that by copying this, they are puffing out their froggy sides to the dimensions of the ox.
1883. R. F. Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast, I. iii. 59. Froggy faces, dark skins, and wiry hair are the rule; the reason being that in the good old days a gentleman would own some eighty slaves.
