Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where frogs are reared or kept for bait or for the market; a place abounding in frogs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a place or
enclosure wherefrogs are kept, and oftenbred .
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Examples
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Perhaps you don't know what a froggery is; but you do know what a frog is, and so you can guess that a froggery is a place where frogs live.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Their Second World war was, after all, about ten minutes of spineless froggery
They Can`t Help Themselves You know Newmania 2007
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Their Second World war was, after all, about ten minutes of spineless froggery
Archive 2007-03-18 Newmania 2007
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Diary of a Mad Natural Historian » Greenery and froggery
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But one of the things we cared for most was our froggery, and we used to play there for hours together in the long summer days.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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We found them there, bound up their broken legs and bruised backs, and nursed them quite well again in one corner of the froggery that we called the hospital.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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We were so afraid that our frogs wouldn't like the froggery better than any other place in the brook that we gave them all the pleasures we could think of.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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We thought the frogs in our froggery the very best singers in all the country round.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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It was one of these deep, quiet pools that we chose for our froggery.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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a gay city life for them, while the froggery was in a quiet brook in our quiet old garden.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
yarb commented on the word froggery
A place for rearing frogs, a ranarium.
Also, frog-like antics.
May 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word froggery
Last night I dreamt I had a citation for this.
May 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word froggery
And so you did!
May 21, 2008