[f. FROG1 + LAND sb.] Marshy land in which frogs abound, as the Fens, Holland, etc. In quots. attrib. only.
1721. Ramsay, Tartana, xxxiii. May she be curst to starve in frogland fens.
1830. Scott, Auchindranc, I. i. A Netherlander, One of our Frogland friends.
So Froglander, slang, a Dutchman.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Frog-landers, Dutch-men.
1867. in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
