English

Alternative forms

• frog-like

Adjective

froglike ‎(comparative more froglike, superlative most froglike)

1. Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog
   • 1926, D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, 1955, Chapter 19, p. 316,

     Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear.

   • 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Maracot Deep," Chapter 5,

     I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it.

   a froglike croak

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5,

     Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.

   • 1988, Yasunari Kawabata, "Samurai Descendant" in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman, San Francisco: North Point Press, p. 133,

     It was the typical chatter of the moment when each woman was showing off her baby, held against her froglike belly.

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See also

• frogly
• ranine

Adverb

froglike ‎(not comparable)

1. In a froglike way

   to hop froglike

   • 1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, London: Murray, 1927,

     In all our adventures I do not know that I have ever seen a more strange sight than this impassive and still dignified figure crouching frog-like upon the ground and goading to a wilder exhibition of passion the maddened hound, which ramped and raged in front of him, by all manner of ingenious and calculated cruelty.

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