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▪ I. frogging, vbl. n.1|ˈfrɒgɪŋ| [f. frog1 + -ing1.] Catching frogs, fishing for frogs. Also attrib.
1651–7T. Barker Art of Angling (1820) 25 Pikes go a frogging. 1884G. W. Sears Woodcraft (Cent.), When..fishing is very poor, try frogging. 1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 78 A thumping, lively carpet snake, whose frogging ground he had intruded on. 1895K. Grahame Golden Age 182 Nor had he gone frogging by himself. ▪ II. frogging, vbl. n.2|ˈfrɒgɪŋ| [f. frog3 + -ing1.] The ornamentation on a frogged coat.
1888Times 20 Jan. 5/3 A Bohemian costume, made up of a long, frogged coat—this frogging being, by the way, an essentially Hungarian ornament. |