frogginess

English

Etymology

froggy +‎ -ness

Noun

frogginess (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being froggy.
    • 1876, John Ruskin, Ariadne Florentina‎:
      There is an audience of seven frogs, listening to a speaker, or croaker, in the middle; and Bewick has set himself to show in all, but especially in the speaker, essential frogginess of mind — the marsh temper.
    • 1998, Ann E. Barron, Karen S. Ivers, The Internet and Instruction: Activities and Ideas, page 91:
      This corner of the net is home to all kinds of virtual frogginess, from the silly to the scientific.
    • 2011, A. A. King, The Not-So-Grim Folk Tales‎, page 228:
      However grateful I am to discard my frogginess, I wonder: if she's not a Princess, am I really a Prince?
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