How to pronounce frog

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What frog means

noun

Most people know frog in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A fancy loop-and-button fastening on a coat

In a sentence: Her red silk jacket closed with three braided frogs across the front.

Where it comes from: No one is sure where it came from. It may come from a Portuguese word that goes back to a Latin word for a tuft of wool. It is a different word from frog, the animal.

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