Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

befrogged

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-frogged
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.

Example Sentences

"Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs."
"The season was, in local parlance, "on," the elements were assembled; the big windy hotel, the draughty social hall, swarmed with "types," in Charlotte's constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmatian, Carpathian, violently exotic and nostalgic, was distinguished as struggling against the perpetual popping of corks."

Etymology

From be- + frog + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be
Suffix: frog

Inflected Forms

more befrogged (comparative) most befrogged (superlative)

Questions

What does befrogged mean?: Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
Where does befrogged come from?: From be- + frog + -ed.

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