leap-frogn.

Brit.

/ˈliːpfrɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ/,

/ˈlipˌfrɑɡ/

Etymology: < leap v.

1. A boys' game in which one player places his hands upon the bent back or shoulders of another and leaps or vaults over him. Also, a jump or leap of this description.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog

leap-frog1600

truss1627

cock-horse1648

truss-a-faila1658

skip-frog1699

hop-frog1720

frog in the middle (also meadow)1790

fly-the-garter1818

frog over an old dog1847–78

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog > a single jump

leap-frog1836

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V v. ii. 137 If I could win thee at leapfrog, Or with vawting with my armour on my backe.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 15 Like fair gamsters at Leap-frog.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxvi. 402 They..exercised themselves at leap frog.

1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 334 Massa Twig..clapping his hands on the old lady's shoulders, cleared her and her tub cleverly by a regular leap-frog.

1853 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 22 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. i. 54 And ended..by playing at leap-frog over the backs of the whole company.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. i. 8 A double row of posts—where boys played leap-frog.

figurative.1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 310 There is a perpetual Game at Leap-Frog between both; and sometimes, the Flesh is uppermost, and sometimes the Spirit.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 35 We play at leap-frog over the god Term.

2. Croquet. (See quot. 1874.)

ΚΠ

1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 33 The Leapfrog or Jump Stroke. This may be called a ‘fancy’ stroke..The object is, when a hoop or another ball is in the way of the striker's ball, to make the latter jump over the obstacle.

3. Military. (See quot. 1918.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > other manoeuvres

limaçon1581

extraduction1635

decursiona1657

feint1683

debouchment1827

pincer1917

leap-frog1918

pincer movement1918

link-up1945

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 340 Leapfrog, a method of maintaining constant communication with a moving command by using two or more instruments with a single unit, keeping one in operation while another is moving past it to a position in front.

4. transferred. Competing for higher wages by ‘leap-frogging’. Cf. leap-frog v. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > promotion or upgrading > demanding higher wages than equals

leap-frogging1955

leap-frog1958

1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 123/2 Nobody has much sympathy with the wage demands of busworkers, town or country; if you use dubious methods of wage bargaining, like the leap-frog, you must expect few tears to be shed if a leap lands you into a ditch.

1961 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 16/6 ‘Leap-frog’ in pay may be checked.

1974 Times 25 May 13/1 The wage ‘leap frog’..is the cause of a large part of our present tensions.

5. attributive (in various figurative senses).

ΚΠ

1904 Daily Chron. 13 July 6/5 Mr. Morley exposed what may be called the ‘leap-frog’ logic of the Protectionists.

1917 Q. Rev. July 190 The ‘leap-frog’ game of fleeting Ministries.

1952 L. Ross Picture i. 41 The ‘leapfrog’ director..whose job it would be to arrange things so that Huston would not have to wait between scenes.

1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 50 Leap~frog test, a test program stored in locations which are progressively changed by the program itself in order to test the store.

1972 Times 19 Dec. 14/1 An attempt to invoke the ‘leap-frog’ procedure under section 12 of the Administration of Justice Act, 1969, and go direct to the House of Lords from a decision of a judge of the High Court failed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

leap-frogv.

Brit.

/ˈliːpfrɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ/,

/ˈlipˌfrɑɡ/

Etymology: < leap-frog n.

a. intransitive and transitive. To leap or vault as at leap-frog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap, spring, or jump over

leapc900

overleapeOE

freea1578

overjump1604

jump1609

overskip1629

fly1719

top1735

spring?a1775

clear1791

overbound1813

over1837

overspring1847

leap-frog1872

vault1884

1872 G. MacDonald Wilfrid Cumbermede I. xiii. 215 All I had to do was to go on leap-frogging.

1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 210 He..tried to leapfrog into the saddle.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. ii. 35 Leap-frogged it [a tombstone], hundreds and hundreds of times, when I were a boy, I have.

b. Military. Of detachments or units, esp. in an attack: to go in advance of each other by turns (see also quot. 1942).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > other manoeuvres

shog1650

to hang on (also upon) someone's rear1667

incline1676

debouch1760

feint1854

leap-frog1920

1920 National Rev. Nov. 355 Behind them marched other divisions who, on the first momentum of the offensive slackening, were to ‘leap-frog’ over their comrades and continue the drive.

1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment ix. 133 Leap-frogging waves of assault.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words s.v. On the first ‘wave’ capturing its allotted objective,..the second passed through beyond it, or ‘leap-frogged’ forward, to capture the second objective ahead.

1927 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 8/7 Two pairs of mobile picket groups, moving by long bounds and one pair ‘leapfrogging’ the other.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 32 The Air Force followed on their heels..leap-frogging over huge stretches of desert... As the armies retreated, they leap-frogged back again.

1966 A. J. Barker Eritrea iv. 85 Due to the lack of transport it was possible only to lift two companies forward at any one time, the rest had to march. The two rear companies were picked up in turn and leap-frogged to the head of the main column.

2. transferred.

a. In wage negotiations: to pursue a policy of demanding higher wages every time a group or groups of comparable wage-earners have succeeded in pulling level or ahead. Chiefly as leap-frogging n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > promotion or upgrading > demanding higher wages than equals

leap-frogging1955

leap-frog1958

society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (transitive)] > promote or upgrade > demand higher wages than equals

leap-frog1955

1955 Times 6 June 7/2 And if the British Transport Commission and the Government were to give in now it could never again be fought with certainty, no matter how long the leap-frogging between the two unions went on.

1958 Times 30 Jan. 4/3 Sir Robert Grimston..said that there was much concern among the fare-paying public at the continual leap frogging in wages between London and the provinces.

1958 Times Rev. Industry June (London & Cambridge Bull.) p. x Engineers..could not be well granted less than was granted to workers in prosperous industries. This seems to produce a threat of leap-frogging wages.

1959 Listener 2 July 6/1 The long-term contract relieves the strain of annual efforts to surpass the previous year's gains, or to leap-frog the advances won in another industry.

1967 Times 18 Jan. 16 There is leap-frogging in newspaper offices, such that when one department negotiates a rise the others follow regardless of justification.

1970 Daily Tel. 15 June 2/5 For the first time collective negotiations on new claims by all unions will replace individual ‘leapfrogging’ demands.

1973 Times 21 Dec. 1/7 To breach Phase Three..would lead to leap-frogging claims which would erode the miners' position in the league table.

b. Other figurative uses.

ΚΠ

1935 J. C. Squire Refl. & Mem. 6 It is a time before the jolly vulgarity of Earl's Court had leap-frogged westward to the White City, and then to Wembley.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin xiii. 498 Only in 1943 did the newly built factories and those that had been ‘leap-frogged’ from the west to the Urals and beyond begin to pour out great quantities of tanks, planes, and guns.

1961 Times 28 Mar. 4/5 They [sc. Oxford] were accompanied by Imperial College, with whom they paddled in the familiar leap-frogging pattern to Chiswick Eyot.

1962 Punch 5 Sept. 330/2 The leap-frogged zones beyond [the Green Belts].

1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting vi. 175 In fact, they [sc. auditors] ‘leapfrog’ over the entire EDP system.

1971 P. Gresswell Environment 122 Development leap-frogs green belts.

1971 J. Wainwright Last Buccaneer iii. 313 When a man leap-frogs me in the promotion stakes I'm human enough to feel narked.

1972 Times 23 Feb. 27/6 So soon as a case at first instance arose involving the ratio decidendi of Rookes v Barnard the parties concerned might use the ‘leap-frogging’ procedure now available.

1973 Listener 17 May 653/1 Haldeman..was put in charge of the advance men, leap-frogging ahead of the candidate and arranging for crowds.

Derivatives

leap-frogger n. one who plays at leap-frog.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog > participants

frog-backa1861

leap-frogger1890

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 2/1 Sometimes a too ambitious leap-frogger ruined his party by overbalancing and falling off.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leap-frog
释义	leap-frogn. Brit. /ˈliːpfrɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈlipˌfrɔɡ/, /ˈlipˌfrɑɡ/ Etymology: < leap v. 1. A boys' game in which one player places his hands upon the bent back or shoulders of another and leaps or vaults over him. Also, a jump or leap of this description. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog leap-frog1600 truss1627 cock-horse1648 truss-a-faila1658 skip-frog1699 hop-frog1720 frog in the middle (also meadow)1790 fly-the-garter1818 frog over an old dog1847–78 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog > a single jump leap-frog1836 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V v. ii. 137 If I could win thee at leapfrog, Or with vawting with my armour on my backe. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 15 Like fair gamsters at Leap-frog. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxvi. 402 They..exercised themselves at leap frog. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 334 Massa Twig..clapping his hands on the old lady's shoulders, cleared her and her tub cleverly by a regular leap-frog. 1853 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 22 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. i. 54 And ended..by playing at leap-frog over the backs of the whole company. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. i. 8 A double row of posts—where boys played leap-frog. figurative.1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 310 There is a perpetual Game at Leap-Frog between both; and sometimes, the Flesh is uppermost, and sometimes the Spirit.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 35 We play at leap-frog over the god Term. 2. Croquet. (See quot. 1874.) ΚΠ 1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 33 The Leapfrog or Jump Stroke. This may be called a ‘fancy’ stroke..The object is, when a hoop or another ball is in the way of the striker's ball, to make the latter jump over the obstacle. 3. Military. (See quot. 1918.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > other manoeuvres limaçon1581 extraduction1635 decursiona1657 feint1683 debouchment1827 pincer1917 leap-frog1918 pincer movement1918 link-up1945 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 340 Leapfrog, a method of maintaining constant communication with a moving command by using two or more instruments with a single unit, keeping one in operation while another is moving past it to a position in front. 4. transferred. Competing for higher wages by ‘leap-frogging’. Cf. leap-frog v. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > promotion or upgrading > demanding higher wages than equals leap-frogging1955 leap-frog1958 1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 123/2 Nobody has much sympathy with the wage demands of busworkers, town or country; if you use dubious methods of wage bargaining, like the leap-frog, you must expect few tears to be shed if a leap lands you into a ditch. 1961 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 16/6 ‘Leap-frog’ in pay may be checked. 1974 Times 25 May 13/1 The wage ‘leap frog’..is the cause of a large part of our present tensions. 5. attributive (in various figurative senses). ΚΠ 1904 Daily Chron. 13 July 6/5 Mr. Morley exposed what may be called the ‘leap-frog’ logic of the Protectionists. 1917 Q. Rev. July 190 The ‘leap-frog’ game of fleeting Ministries. 1952 L. Ross Picture i. 41 The ‘leapfrog’ director..whose job it would be to arrange things so that Huston would not have to wait between scenes. 1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 50 Leap~frog test, a test program stored in locations which are progressively changed by the program itself in order to test the store. 1972 Times 19 Dec. 14/1 An attempt to invoke the ‘leap-frog’ procedure under section 12 of the Administration of Justice Act, 1969, and go direct to the House of Lords from a decision of a judge of the High Court failed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leap-frogv. Brit. /ˈliːpfrɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈlipˌfrɔɡ/, /ˈlipˌfrɑɡ/ Etymology: < leap-frog n. 1. a. intransitive and transitive. To leap or vault as at leap-frog. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap, spring, or jump over leapc900 overleapeOE freea1578 overjump1604 jump1609 overskip1629 fly1719 top1735 spring?a1775 clear1791 overbound1813 over1837 overspring1847 leap-frog1872 vault1884 1872 G. MacDonald Wilfrid Cumbermede I. xiii. 215 All I had to do was to go on leap-frogging. 1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 210 He..tried to leapfrog into the saddle. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. ii. 35 Leap-frogged it [a tombstone], hundreds and hundreds of times, when I were a boy, I have. b. Military. Of detachments or units, esp. in an attack: to go in advance of each other by turns (see also quot. 1942). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > other manoeuvres shog1650 to hang on (also upon) someone's rear1667 incline1676 debouch1760 feint1854 leap-frog1920 1920 National Rev. Nov. 355 Behind them marched other divisions who, on the first momentum of the offensive slackening, were to ‘leap-frog’ over their comrades and continue the drive. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment ix. 133 Leap-frogging waves of assault. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words s.v. On the first ‘wave’ capturing its allotted objective,..the second passed through beyond it, or ‘leap-frogged’ forward, to capture the second objective ahead. 1927 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 8/7 Two pairs of mobile picket groups, moving by long bounds and one pair ‘leapfrogging’ the other. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 32 The Air Force followed on their heels..leap-frogging over huge stretches of desert... As the armies retreated, they leap-frogged back again. 1966 A. J. Barker Eritrea iv. 85 Due to the lack of transport it was possible only to lift two companies forward at any one time, the rest had to march. The two rear companies were picked up in turn and leap-frogged to the head of the main column. 2. transferred. a. In wage negotiations: to pursue a policy of demanding higher wages every time a group or groups of comparable wage-earners have succeeded in pulling level or ahead. Chiefly as leap-frogging n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > promotion or upgrading > demanding higher wages than equals leap-frogging1955 leap-frog1958 society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (transitive)] > promote or upgrade > demand higher wages than equals leap-frog1955 1955 Times 6 June 7/2 And if the British Transport Commission and the Government were to give in now it could never again be fought with certainty, no matter how long the leap-frogging between the two unions went on. 1958 Times 30 Jan. 4/3 Sir Robert Grimston..said that there was much concern among the fare-paying public at the continual leap frogging in wages between London and the provinces. 1958 Times Rev. Industry June (London & Cambridge Bull.) p. x Engineers..could not be well granted less than was granted to workers in prosperous industries. This seems to produce a threat of leap-frogging wages. 1959 Listener 2 July 6/1 The long-term contract relieves the strain of annual efforts to surpass the previous year's gains, or to leap-frog the advances won in another industry. 1967 Times 18 Jan. 16 There is leap-frogging in newspaper offices, such that when one department negotiates a rise the others follow regardless of justification. 1970 Daily Tel. 15 June 2/5 For the first time collective negotiations on new claims by all unions will replace individual ‘leapfrogging’ demands. 1973 Times 21 Dec. 1/7 To breach Phase Three..would lead to leap-frogging claims which would erode the miners' position in the league table. b. Other figurative uses. ΚΠ 1935 J. C. Squire Refl. & Mem. 6 It is a time before the jolly vulgarity of Earl's Court had leap-frogged westward to the White City, and then to Wembley. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin xiii. 498 Only in 1943 did the newly built factories and those that had been ‘leap-frogged’ from the west to the Urals and beyond begin to pour out great quantities of tanks, planes, and guns. 1961 Times 28 Mar. 4/5 They [sc. Oxford] were accompanied by Imperial College, with whom they paddled in the familiar leap-frogging pattern to Chiswick Eyot. 1962 Punch 5 Sept. 330/2 The leap-frogged zones beyond [the Green Belts]. 1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting vi. 175 In fact, they [sc. auditors] ‘leapfrog’ over the entire EDP system. 1971 P. Gresswell Environment 122 Development leap-frogs green belts. 1971 J. Wainwright Last Buccaneer iii. 313 When a man leap-frogs me in the promotion stakes I'm human enough to feel narked. 1972 Times 23 Feb. 27/6 So soon as a case at first instance arose involving the ratio decidendi of Rookes v Barnard the parties concerned might use the ‘leap-frogging’ procedure now available. 1973 Listener 17 May 653/1 Haldeman..was put in charge of the advance men, leap-frogging ahead of the candidate and arranging for crowds. Derivatives leap-frogger n. one who plays at leap-frog. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog > participants frog-backa1861 leap-frogger1890 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 2/1 Sometimes a too ambitious leap-frogger ruined his party by overbalancing and falling off. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600v.1872
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