[f. FROG1 + -ING1.] Catching frogs, fishing for frogs. Also attrib.
1651–7. T. Barker, Art of Angling (1820), 25. There is a time when Pikes go a frogging, and also to sun themselves, there is a speedy way to take them, and not to misse one in twenty.
1884. G. W. Sears, Woodcraft (Cent. Dict.). When … fishing is very poor, try frogging.
1893. J. A. Barry, Steve Brown’s Bunyip, 78. Up he came, a regular Laocoon, in the close embraces of a thumping, lively carpet snake, whose frogging ground he had intruded upon.
1895. K. Grahame, Golden Age, 182 Nor had he gone frogging by himself.
