froglike

From frog +‎ -like.

• Hyphenation: frog‧like

froglike (comparative more froglike, superlative most froglike)

1. Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
   • 1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, published 1955, page 316:

     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.

   • 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Maracot Deep‎:

     I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it.

   a froglike croak

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, Part One, Chapter 5:

     Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.

   • 1988, Yasunari Kawabata, “Samurai Descendant”, in Lane Dunlop, J. Martin Holman, San Francisco, transl., Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, North Point Press, page 133:

     It was the typical chatter of the moment when each woman was showing off her baby, held against her froglike belly.

• frog-like

• froggish
• froggy
• frogly
• ranine

• anuran
• batrachian
• salientian
• toadish
• toadlike
• toadly
• toady

froglike (not comparable)

1. In a froglike way

   to hop froglike

   • 1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes‎, London: Murray, published 1927:

     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 maddened hound, which ramped and raged in front of him, by all manner of ingenious and calculated cruelty.