Talk:frogging

Old discussion
That's not a noun, it's a verb. -ing form is also used for the gerund, which might be why it seems to be a noun in some example, like "frogging is against the rules".

Shouldn't the stem be documented, not just one declined form?

So, I agree with Paul G.

Reciently, I hit upon a word that was commonly used in one form, but once the stem existed, other forms naturally appear though rare. So I put the common def in that specific form, and a note that the stem was back-formed from it.


 * This word has a different meaning in FOLDOC &mdash; Paul G 14:23, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I was reading an article(http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/seamless-knits/73120/2526-2550) on knitting seamlessly: "After many stops and starts…trying to a. find the perfect the sweater for my nice, and b. start something that I can knit without frogging a million times, (ugh!)". She seems to hate the difficulty of correctly aligning and stitching together, the rows of edges with (sometimes different?) row counts (or with stitches of different tightness). (Needs checking - I don't knit!) I didn't know if my understanding was correct so I asked Wikipedia and ended up here. This seems related, in a general way, to "frequengy frogging" in telecommunications (referred to above by Paul G.), if "row" corresponds with "channel", "crosstalk" corresponds to misalignment of row stitches. My point is that "A set of decorative looped fastener on a garment, especially on a military uniform." doesn't seem to point to the usage context I was looking for. So my request is that an expert knitter be asked to also include a definition of this usage. I'm not familiar, myself, with that field, or I'd ask someone, myself, to take a look. I haven't researched this term in other dictionaries - maybe it's already been done, somewhere else. In common, there seems to be a concept of "alignment", so I expect its etymology should help to explain the diversity of usage. What have frogs got to do with it?! Mawrryce (talk) 22:44, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I suspect you're talking about a sense of the verb, not the noun. All the definitions for the verb are at frog. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:52, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2011–February 2012
"(internet) The act of repeatedly and rapidly entering and exiting chat rooms." May be real but I couldn't find anything with a quick Web search. Equinox ◑ 22:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 03:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)