[f. FROG1 + -HOOD.] Quality or standing as a frog.
a. 1770. C. Smart, Duellist, 32. Too hard for any frog’s digestion, To have his froghood call’d in question.
1888. Grant Allen, Studies from Life, in Good Words, XXIX. 230/1. Hour by hour the tail now gets shorter, being slowly absorbed by the remainder of the body; and in the fulness of time, the remodelled creature quits the water and steps on dry land in the accomplished dignity of perfect froghood.
