To frog on, verb. phr. (American).—To get on; to prosper frogging-on =
success.
Frog-and-Toad, subs. (rhyming).—The main road.
Frog-and-Toe, subs. (American thieves’).—The city of New York.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 35. Coves, let us
frog-and-toe, coves, let us go to New York.
Froglander, subs. (old).—A Dutchman. Cf., frog, sense 2.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1852. Judson, Mysteries, etc., of New York, ch. xiv. The funny swag
which they raised out of the froglander coves.
Frog-salad, subs. (American).—A ballet; i.e., a leg-piece (q.v.).
Frog’s March. To give the frog’s march, verb. phr. (common).—To carry a
man face downwards to the station; a device adopted with drunken or
turbulent prisoners.
1871. Evening Standard, ‘Clerkenwell Police Report,’ 18 April. In
cross-examination the police stated that they did not give the
defendant the frog’s march. The frog’s march was described to be
carrying the face downwards.
1884. Daily News, Oct. 4, p. 5, col. 2. They had to resort to a
mode of carrying him, familiarly known in the force, we believe, as
the frog trot, or sometimes as the frog’s march.... The prisoner is
carried with his face downwards and his arms drawn behind him.
1888. Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec. Whether the ‘bobbies’ ran the tipsy
man in, treating him meanwhile to a taste of the frog’s march, and
whether he was fined or imprisoned for assaulting the police, is
not upon the record.
1890. Bird o’ Freedom, 19 Mar., p. 1, col. 1. And then he gets the
frog’s march to the nearest Tealeaf’s.
Frog’s Wine, subs. phr. (old).—Gin. For synonyms, see Drinks and Satin.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frolic, subs. (common).—A merry-making.
1847. Robb. Squatter Life, p. 133. At all the frolicks round the
country, Jess was hangin’ onter that gal.
Frosty-face, subs. (old).—A pox-pitted man. Grose (1785).
Front, verb (thieves’).—To conceal the operations of a pickpocket; to
cover (q.v.).
1879. J. W. Horsley in Macmillan’s Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said,
‘Front me (cover me), and I will do him for it.’
Front-attic (or -door, -garden, -parlour, -room, or -window). subs.
phr. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. To
have (or do) a bit of front-door work = to copulate.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb’s front-parlour (vide
Tom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.
Front-door Mat, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pubic hair. For
synonyms, see Fleece.
Front-gut, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable.
Frontispiece, subs. (pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms, see Dial.
1818. P. Egan, Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon
the Jew’s frontispiece two such severe blows, that Crabbe’s
countenance underwent a trifling change.
1845. Buckstone, Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t
come in contract with your iligant frontispiece.
1860. Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is his
frontispiece.
1864. A. Trollope, Sm. Ho. at Allington (1884), vol. ii., ch. V.,
p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and
that he had come out of it with considerable damage to his
frontispiece.
1891. Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the
ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a
short black pipe in his distorted and battered frontispiece.
Front-windows, subs. (common).—1. The eyes; also the face.
2. In sing. (venery).—The female pudendum. Cf., front-attic; and for
synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Frost, subs. (common).—A complete failure. Cf., Fr., un four noir. Also
un temps noir = a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an
actor’s memory fails him).
1885. Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and
perfect frost.
1885. Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write
favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big a
frost athletically as it was financially.
1889. Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a dead frost.