froglike

Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.

Adjective

  1. Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
    • Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear. - 1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed...
    • I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it. - 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Maracot Deep:
    • a froglike croak

Origin

Etymology tree English frog Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English froglike From frog + -like.

Forms

more froglike most froglike frog-like

Synonyms

froggish froggy frogly ranine

Related

anuran batrachian salientian toadish toadlike toadly toady

Derived

unfroglike

Adverb

  1. In a froglike way
    • to hop froglike
    • In all our adventures I do not know that I have ever seen a more strange sight than this impassive and still dignified figure crouching frog-like upon the ground and goading to a wilder exhibition of passion the...