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frogdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From frog + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a frog, or of belonging to the world of frogs; frogs, collectively.
    • No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag. 2009, Frank H. Cheley, The Three Rivers Kids, page 87:
    • All four of the southern frogs present (all non-tropical native Australian frogs are either southern frogs, a homegrown contribution to world frogdom, or tree frogs) I have heard in my suburban backyard, but the sheer numbers here are thrilling. 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 181:
    • These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom. 1870, William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, page 240: