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frogging

frogging

8.8
The act of pulling out knitting stitches to fix mistakes or reuse yarn
  • noun
  • Jargon
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  • She spent the afternoon frogging her sweater after noticing a mistake in the pattern.

Examples

  • I'm a whiz with zippers and gauging and frogging.

    The Dressmaker (2015)

  • Many knitters find frogging frustrating, but it is sometimes necessary to fix errors.

  • Before starting a new project, he finished frogging the old scarf to reuse the yarn.

How Complete

mending
11 1.6
frogging
  • Jargon
8.8

Surface Forms

frogging singular
froggings plural

Morphology

frogging = frog (opaque) = frog + ing

The noun is derived from the knitting verb 'frog', but that verb is specialized jargon, so the meaning is not readily recoverable for an average learner from the common word 'frog'.

Etymology

One popular story says the knitting sense of frogging comes from people saying 'rip it, rip it' when they pull out stitches, a phrase that sounds like a frog's 'ribbit', so undoing stitches became known as 'frogging', meaning to rip out knitting to fix mistakes or reuse yarn.