defrog
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Back in 1778, the citizens of Boston gave a banquet in honor of the French admiral, D'Estainge, who had recently arrived in New England to help the Americans in their war effort. The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city. He served them in a specially prepared cold soup — live."
- "Throat-clearing, preparatory defrogging of the throat, may itself be isolated as a marker of the public speaker, or the speaker on the verge of saying something rather difficult (preparing the voice box and dealing pre-emptively with nervousness)."
- "It was a live broadcast, some talk show; evidently Prentis had managed to get himself defrogged. Perhaps Tempestt had done her kissy duty after all."
- "After feeding the cats and defrogging the litter box, she grabs her winter coat, hat, and scarf."
Etymology
From de- + frog.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de