Definition of Froggery

1. Noun. a place or enclosure where frogs are kept, and often bred. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Froggery

1. a place where frogs are kept [n FROGGERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Froggery

frog marched
frog marches
frog marching
frog orchid
frog view
frogbit
frogbit family
frogbits
frogeye
frogeyed
frogeyes
frogfish
frogfishes
frogged
froggeries
froggery (current term)
froggier
froggies
froggiest
froggily
frogginess
frogging
froggings
froggish
froggy
froghopper
froghoppers
froglet
froglets
froglike

Literary usage of Froggery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Oakland, California for by Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education, Oakland (Calif.). Superintendent of Schools (1901)
"But if the aquarium is deep, with vertical sides, a froggery must be set up at once. Get a box which is longer than wide — a macaroni box will do for small ..."

2. The Geology of the Country Around Stockport, Macclesfield, Congleton, and by Edward Hull, Alexander Henry Green, Robert Etheridge (1866)
"... Stinking, in three seams - - 3 0 Measures - - 100 0 Coal, Ironstone Mine -23 Measures - - 185 0 Coal, froggery - 5 0 (1 ft. 6 in. bad at the bottom). ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"... who is watching the froggery from a thorn, we lift the apparatus upside down, and lo 1 the seemingly liquid medium ù as solid as rock-crystal ! ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"I first observed this some years ago when, in my Birmingham froggery, an ill-fed monster specimen seized a smaller brother by the hind legs with cannibal ..."

5. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens (1842)
"... even the melody of a froggery— " As plaintive lambkin now he bleats, and now He gently whimpers like a lowing cow." What an acquisition he would be to ..."

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