Definitions
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- adjective Similar to a
frog (1) - adjective Similar to that of a
frog (1); as, a froglike croak - adjective figuratively (Of a person) who resembles a
frog (1) in some way; for example, sporting wide, bulbous eyes. - adverb In a froglike way; as, to hop froglike
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Examples
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"froglike," mandeikagati [Footnote: Like the frog: staccato.] (I do everything to be "difficultly understood" myself!) -- and one should be heartily grateful for the good will to some refinement of interpretation.
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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He claims that his only quarrel is with “the idolatry of woman,” but it is one thing to want to take la femme off her pedestal — assuming she was still on it in the 1930s — and another to assert that when lying on her back during sex she looks “ridiculous … froglike.”
Monster of Marriage 2010
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He claims that his only quarrel is with “the idolatry of woman,” but it is one thing to want to take la femme off her pedestal — assuming she was still on it in the 1930s — and another to assert that when lying on her back during sex she looks “ridiculous … froglike.”
Monster of Marriage 2010
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The form was vaguely human, but also amphibian, with a froglike mouth opened wide and glittering white gems for eyes.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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The form was vaguely human, but also amphibian, with a froglike mouth opened wide and glittering white gems for eyes.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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He claims that his only quarrel is with “the idolatry of woman,” but it is one thing to want to take la femme off her pedestal — assuming she was still on it in the 1930s — and another to assert that when lying on her back during sex she looks “ridiculous … froglike.”
Monster of Marriage 2010
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The froglike, grasshopper-legged being into whose presence the constables had conducted the away team regarded its prisoners with wide, curious eyes.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Evesh folded her froglike arms across her chest, her finned feet splayed in an aggressive stance.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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The froglike, grasshopper-legged being into whose presence the constables had conducted the away team regarded its prisoners with wide, curious eyes.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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On the Boston ferry, I'm most like that guy by the rail — I mean we share a vocabulary of forms, being froglike both of us, and fifty some.
The Line 2010
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