froglandn.
/ˈfrɒɡlənd/, /ˈfrɒɡland/, U.S. /ˈfrɔɡlənd/, /ˈfrɑɡlənd/, /ˈfrɔɡˌlænd/, /ˈfrɑɡˌlænd/ Land on which frogs live or are abundant. Chiefly attributive.In quot. 1830: the Netherlands (cf. Froglander n.).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
marsheOE
fenc888
sladec893
moorOE
mossOE
marshlandlOE
lay-fena1225
lay-mirea1225
moor-fenc1275
flosha1300
strother?a1300
marish1327
carrc1330
waterlanda1382
gaseync1400
quaba1425
paludec1425
mersec1440
sumpa1450
palus?1473
wash1483
morass1489
oozea1500
bog?a1513
danka1522
fell1538
soga1552
Camarine1576
gog1583
swale1584
sink1594
haga1600
mere1609
flata1616
swamp1624
pocosin1634
frogland1651
slash1652
poldera1669
savannah1671
pond-land1686
red bog1686
swang1691
slack1719
flowa1740
wetland1743
purgatory1760
curragh1780
squall1784
marais1793
vlei1793
muskeg1806
bog-pit1820
prairie1820
fenhood1834
pakihi1851
terai1852
sponge1856
takyr1864
boglet1869
sinkhole1885
grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd i. 11 Frog-land to save, and Micean Realms to spare From War and Ruine, two bold Kings prepare The Empire of the Marshes to decide In single fight.
1703 Æsop at Tunbridge vii, in Poems Affairs of State II. 70 A neigh'bring Stork at length they chose Which shou'd their Heats and Feuds compose: He took upon him the Command Of all the People in Frogland.
1718 A. Ramsay Tartana 29 May she be curst to starve in Frogland Fenns.
1830 W. Scott Auchindrane i i, in Doom of Devorgoil 243 A Netherlander, One of our Frogland friends.
1904 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily Capital 7 Oct. 13/3 Lilies, oleanders and weeping willows..surround the temples of this frogland.
1942 Southeast Economist (Chicago) 30 Apr. 4/2 Can it be Spring when..We from the steaming marsh A frogland chorus hear?
1997 M. J. Bang Apol. for Want 55 What used to be moat, is nothing but frogland near the edge of a river.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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