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Apropos of nothing:
How does one frog?
Well, the OED gives several possibilities. If one is 'frogging', one is 'catching frogs, fishing for frogs'. One might 'frog' a coat - that is, apply 'frogs' ('An attachment to the waist-belt in which a sword or bayonet or hatchet may be carried.' or 'An ornamental fastening for the front of a military coat or cloak, consisting of a spindle-shaped button, covered with silk or other material, which passes through a loop on the opposite side of the garment.'). And so on.
Knitters and crocheters use "frogging" to refer to undoing defective work. Rippit! Rippit!
That it's actually a verb surprises me. I was just intending it to be a pun on the game Frogger. I thought, "one who runs is a runner, so what does Frogger mean?"
If there's one thing I've learned from buying an OED, it's that every damn word in English has an amazing number of variations and meanings.
"define: frogger"
...it was the best username I could think of, at the time ;).