frog legs
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3.4
- noun
- /frɔg lɛgz/
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piernas de rana
- My friends and I shared a platter of grilled frog legs, which tasted surprisingly similar to chicken.
- fried frog legs
- eat frog legs
And then once I started travelling for some all fat in fashion, I think the weirdest thing was probably like frog legs and snails.
- And then once I started travelling for some all fat in fashion, I think the weirdest thing was probably like frog legs and snails.
Examples
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Do you serve frog legs here or not?
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The Café Jomier for some of those wonderful frog legs.
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Add the frog legs and allow to stand for at least an hour, turning the legs from time to time.
Academic text (1990) -
So I cooked up some frog legs.
Blog text (8) -
I'm not in the mood for frog legs.
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Pat the frog legs dry with paper towels and dip them in flour.
Academic text (1990) -
"Come on, you don't like frog legs with lemon and butter?" he drawled in disbelief.
Fiction book (1998) -
- Hi, I'm Doc Hopper, invitin' you to hop on down and get some Hopper's French-fried frog legs.
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When I visited the French restaurant, I ordered crispy frog legs for the first time.
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Fried frog legs are a popular delicacy in many Asian cuisines, often served with dipping sauce.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the hind legs of frogs eaten as food' is a literal composition of 'frog' + 'legs' and can be directly inferred from the constituent words. This is a common culinary noun phrase cross-linguistically (many languages use the same transparent structure), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.
Etymology
Frog legs comes from the literal parts of a frog: frog's legs, usually the back legs, cooked and eaten as food. French cooks made it popular, and because the meat is light and tender people often say it 'tastes like chicken', so frog legs now means those edible frog back legs.