• Frogdom

    Origin

    frog + -dom

    Full definition of frogdom

    Noun

    frogdom

    (uncountable)
    1. 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:These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom.
      • 2009, Frank H. Cheley, The Three Rivers Kids, page 87: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.
      • 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 181: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.
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