Lobby Dosser wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote:


Lobby Dosser wrote:

"RicodJour" wrote:



TWS wrote:


Can anyone give me the reason a 'frog' is called a frog?

Because it looks like a frog sitting on its haunches.

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/images/leopfrog.gif

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More likely to have come from railroad terminology. See about halfway
down for 'frog'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

Railroading possibly made the term more common,
but there were things called frogs long before
railroads.



Such as ...
If you don't have one, now is a good time to get a
copy of the Websters 3rd International dictionary.