[f. FROG1 + -Y.]
1. A playful designation for a frog.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 129. Amongst the fossils is a complete series of frogs, from the full-grown froggy that might a wooing go, down to that minute frogling—a tadpole.
2. slang. A term of contempt for a Frenchman, from their reputed habit of eating frogs.
1872. S. de Vere, Americanisms, 82. As when Frenchmen were dubbed Froggies.
1894. Astley, 50 Years Life, I. 203. With the assistance of ‘Froggy,’ we succeeded in filling all our bottles.
