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Definition of Froggery
1. a place where frogs are kept [n FROGGERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Froggery
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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