{"id":22150,"date":"2022-05-11T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22150"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:07:09","slug":"befrogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22150","title":{"rendered":"Befrogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a crush on someone or you are infutated with them, in Dutch you might say that <strong>je bent verkikkerd op iemand<\/strong>, which could be translated literally as &#8220;you are befrogged of someone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>verkikkerd<\/strong> means &#8216;in love with (someone)&#8217; or to &#8216;love (someone) very much&#8217;  [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/verkikkerd\">source<\/a>]. It comes from <strong>kikker<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u026ak\u0259r] (frog, toad, cleat), from <strong>kikken<\/strong> (to croak, sound like a frog; utter, mention), which is onomatopoeic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kikker\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/193730777@N06\/51473342272\/in\/photolist-2mqwkmu-c42TY7-24HXAt8-2jdBg81-2j3U3Yo-2kGWD73-2gzJ3KE-BbrBpm-2nfYKmR-2eyYMDZ-2io7EPx-p3yUT-avpt8p-5QZsmf-9QfQH3-a1mHhk-TjfL1N-2kYrqcd-SWTv8V-a1mHdM-RkHuf-9G7uEu-75AZKL-3iTbe-2jyfJEV-23QXBAM-71pkku-2jyj2ka-2jyk3FW-g8FsRv-H3R1sc-a1pzx7-7RWCXX-9PGErE-juzQL-qsgy2c-4aDKUN-24df7TB-2mH3f13-nbuz4s-2k5zesn-2fTGoG3-2nj3S46-VgRT4y-gpJ2g-5jeng3-2fTGots-sNPHii-4WRAUs-He4tBc\" title=\"Groene kikker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51473342272_0d9c73e827_z.jpg\" alt=\"Groene kikker\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some other frog-related words and expressions in Dutch include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>kikkerbad<\/strong> = shallow children&#8217;s pool (&#8220;frog bath&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>kikkeren<\/strong> = to jump around crouching (like a frog)<\/li>\n<li><strong>kikkerland<\/strong> = a small, unimportant and rather wet country, virtually exclusively said of the Netherlands (&#8220;frog land&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>blitskikker<\/strong> = a person (usually young) who follows fashion closely, a fashionista (&#8220;fashionable frog&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>mafkikker<\/strong> = a werido, goofball, nutjob (&#8220;weird\/crazy  frog&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Een koele kikker zijn<\/strong> = to be a cold-blooded person \/ a cold fish (&#8220;to be a cool frog&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Een kikker in de keel hebben<\/strong> = to be hoarse (&#8220;to have a frog in the throat&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Een opkikkertje<\/strong> = a pick-me-up (something that makes you happy, or a small glass of hard liquor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kikker\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In English the word <strong>frog<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops<\/li>\n<li>Part of a violin bow<\/li>\n<li>Road, as in frog and toad (<em>Cockney rhyming slang<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick<\/li>\n<li>An organ on the bottom of a horse&#8217;s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>frogge<\/em> [\u02c8fr\u0254\u0261(\u0259)] (frog, toad, wretch, mushroom), the Old English <em>frocga<\/em> [\u02c8fro\u0261.\u0261\u0251] (frog), and the Proto-Germanic <em>*fru\u00feg\u00f4<\/em> (frog), from <em>*fru\u00fe<\/em> (frog) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/frog#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any interesting frog-related expresssions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a crush on someone or you are infutated with them, in Dutch you might say that je bent verkikkerd op iemand, which could be translated literally as &#8220;you are befrogged of someone&#8221;. The word verkikkerd means &#8216;in love with (someone)&#8217; or to &#8216;love (someone) very much&#8217; [source]. It comes from kikker [\u02c8k\u026ak\u0259r] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22150"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22165,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions\/22165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}