froggish
- adjective
- /ˈfrɔɡɪʃ/
- As he crouched by the pond, his froggish appearance fascinated the young students.
Examples
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The child's froggish green raincoat stood out brightly in the crowd.
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Lenny came to work wearing yellow-tinted safety goggles that made him look froggish the following day.
Fiction book (1991) -
Though she is now ten years dead, she stands there behind the podium, immutable and somehow significant, this white-haired, obese Negro woman, smiling her peculiar, froggish grin.
Fiction book (1991) -
His froggish manner of speaking made everyone turn their heads in confusion.
Synonyms
Having the look or movement of a frog
Looking or acting like a small green animal with big eyes and feet for swimming
Relating to frogs and toads
Having rough, bumpy skin like a toad
How Froglike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Froggish is formed from frog + -ish, where -ish means 'like', so froggish simply means 'like a frog' in appearance or manner.