Other forms: frogs
A frog is a small green animal that jumps and lives near water. A frog in the pond, frogs croaking, catch a frog.
It breathes partly through its skin, which must stay damp and which makes frogs sensitive to pollution — they are used as indicators of a stream's health for exactly that reason. Frogs have smooth skin and toads dry warty skin. A frog in your throat is a hoarseness. Note tadpole, the young.
1nounfrogA small jumping amphibian that lives near water.
“We could hear the frogs croaking in the pond all night.”
frog is an animal.
Old English frocga is a Germanic word for the animal. Its ultimate origin is uncertain.
Proto-Indo-European
*prew-
Proto-West Germanic
*froggō — frog
Old English
frocga
Middle English
frogge
English, today
frog
From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”). Possibly related to stq Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”). Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a Ancient Greek βάτραχος.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA