Frogness vs Frogdom - What's the difference?
frogness | frogdom |
The quality of being a frog.
*1988 , Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery , page 58:
*1998 , Sondra Horton Fraleigh, ?Penelope Hanstein, Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry , page 198:
*2012 , Charlotte Sleigh, Frog , page 127:
The state of being a frog, or of belonging to the world of frogs; frogs, collectively.
*1870 , William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book , page 240:
*2009 , Frank H. Cheley, The Three Rivers Kids , page 87:
*2011 , Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region , page 181:
As nouns the difference between frogness and frogdom
is that frogness is the quality of being a frog while frogdom is the state of being a frog, or of belonging to the world of frogs; frogs, collectively.frogness
English
Noun
(-)- Rather than empathy with what I might imagine a snake or frog might feel, I was sufficiently absorbed in snakeness and frogness as to wonder how the humans around me might feel.
- I am obligated to explain frogness at this point, but I will let it go for now, lest we be led into a discussion regarding instinct and into speculations on nature you might have felt lurking in the original question the minute you saw it.
- Just as in Roux's case, it takes work to learn to use a frog, and more work still to strip it of its frogness and transform it into a standard organism that works the same as all other species.
frogdom
English
Noun
(-)- These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom .
- No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag.
- All four of the southern frogs present (all non-tropical native Australian frogs are either southern frogs, a homegrown contribution to world frogdom , or tree frogs) I have heard in my suburban backyard, but the sheer numbers here are thrilling.