"defrog" meaning in English

See defrog in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: defrogs [present, singular, third-person], defrogging [participle, present], defrogged [participle, past], defrogged [past]
Etymology: From de- + frog. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|frog}} de- + frog Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} defrog (third-person singular simple present defrogs, present participle defrogging, simple past and past participle defrogged)
  1. (transitive, nonce word) To rid of frogs. Tags: nonce-word, transitive

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From de- + frog.",
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          "ref": "1981, Gus McLeavy, Bathroom Almanac, Frederick Fell Pub, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head, page 80:",
          "text": "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).",
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        "To rid of frogs."
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