Frog vs Frogskin - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between frog and frogskin

is that frog is a small tailless amphibian of the order anura that typically hops or frog can be (offensive) a french person or frog can be a leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt while frogskin is the skin of a frog, or leather made therefrom.

As a verb frog

is to hunt or trap frogs or frog can be to ornament or fasten a coat, etc with frogs or frog can be to unravel (a knitted garment).

frog

English

(wikipedia frog) (commons)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), ).J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, eds, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "Jump" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 323. See also (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops

The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached

(Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad

The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick

An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood

The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof)

An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.

Synonyms

* frosh, frosk, frock * pad, paddock * (railway switch component) common crossing

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * * * bush frog * clawed frog * common frog * Darwin's frog * disc-tongued frog * edible frog * * * fine as frog hair, finer than frog hair * Frog (metathesis: > Gorf) * frog belly * frogbit * frog chorus * frogeater, frog eater * frogeye * frogeyed * frog face * frogfish * frogged * froggery * frogging * froggish * froggy * Froggy * froghopper * a frog in one’s throat * frog kick * frog kingdom * frog legs * froglike * * frogly * frogman * frogmarch, frog-march * frogmouth * frog orchid * frogpond, frog pond * frog pose * The Frog Prince * Frog Prince * frog's-bit * frog's legs * frogspawn, frog spawn * frog spit * frog spittle * frog sticker * frogstool * ghost frog * glass frog * * Kermit the Frog (metathesis: > Kermit the Forg, Kermit the Gorf, Kermit the Grof) * The Leap-Frog * leapfrog, leap-frog * leapfrogged, leap-frogged * leapfrogging * leapfrog test, leap-frog test, leap frog test * litter frog * male frog test * * marsupial frog * moss frog * * painted frog * parsley frog * poison dart frog * * screeching frog * sedge frog * * shovelnose frog * tailed frog * tongueless frog * tree frog * Tukeit Hill frog * * true frog

References

Verb

(frogg)

To hunt or trap frogs.

To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.

Derived terms

* frog stitch

Etymology 2

From (m), stereotypical food of the French. Compare , from (m), corresponding French term for English, likewise based on stereotypical food.

Noun

(en noun)

(offensive) A French person

(Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec

Antonyms

* (French person) (l)

References

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt

An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of a button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop

Verb

(frogg)

To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs

Etymology 4

Supposedly from sounding similar to "rip it".

Verb

(frogg)

To unravel (a knitted garment).

References

English ethnic slurs English informal demonyms ----

frogskin

English

Noun

(s)

the skin of a frog, or leather made therefrom

She pulled a frogskin wallet out of her purse.

a greenback, a United States dollar

You can buy the individual parts for a few frogskins , or the whole setup for fifty.

Give a few frogskins to charity.