frogged

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of frog.

   Frustrated by the uneven tension, she frogged the entire sleeve.

   The shawl was frogged twice before the pattern finally looked right.

   Note

   One spelling serves several unrelated verbs. A knitter who has frogged a sleeve has unraveled it, a cook who has frogged a chicken has spatchcocked it, and a tailor who has frogged a coat has fastened it with braided loops. That last use shades into the braided-coat adjective. The final g doubles before -ed, and the past tense and participle share the form: she frogged it; it was frogged.

2. 2
   adjective

   Decorated with ornamental braid or lace, typically arranged across the breast of a uniform coat.

   Like the rows of looped braid that run across a circus ringmaster's coat.

   The museum displayed a frogged hussar tunic from the Napoleonic wars.

   Antique dealers prize frogged military coats for their elaborate braidwork.

   Similarbraided

   Note

   An adjective that does not grade: a coat is frogged or it is not, and nothing is more frogged than another. It describes a garment that carries frogs, the ornamental braid worked across the breast. It belongs to the vocabulary of military dress and usually sits directly before its noun, as in a frogged tunic or a frogged military coat.

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