# "Feeling froggy"... Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 26, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375 "2005-03-26T18:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SimonMoon5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@SimonMoon5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonMoon5)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/1 "2005-03-26T18:05:08Z")
Okay, this phrase has apparently been growing in usage lately… but I’ve got no idea what it means. From context, I might guess “feeling froggy” to mean something like “feeling unusual,” but perhaps in a specific way. I don’t _think_ it means touching or stimulating frog-like creatures. And the only definition dictionaries seem to give for “froggy” run along the lines of “full of frogs”, and I don’t _think_ people are feeling full of frogs (though maybe they are, I dunno). ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/2 "2005-03-26T18:26:00Z")
Are you sure it’s not a derivation of “frog in my throat?” Itself a reference to a sore/scratchy throat or possibly a new sexual/hallucinigen fetish. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/3 "2005-03-26T18:32:06Z")
[Urbandictionary.com](http://Urbandictionary.com) is always a good reference for up-to-date slang info. I’ve never heard this used before, but [the first definition](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=froggy&r=f) seems the most likely. > [@](#): > > 1. froggy > Froggy-to feel lively or perky; Usually hinting towards the use of intoxicants. > > _My my, feeling froggy today huh? It’s not even 4:30 and you’re fried!_ ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Turk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dan\_Turk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Turk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/4 "2005-03-26T18:33:16Z")
around my area, it’s someone who’s spoiling for a fight… “I’m feelin froggy” “if you’re feeling froggish, just leap” not sure about your area, tho ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/5 "2005-03-26T20:27:04Z")
I took it as a cute way to say feeling foggy. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/6 "2005-03-26T20:39:09Z")
Back in good old violence prone, hostility-ridden Texas, when I was a teenager, it was usually a responce to a challenge: Challenger: “I’m gonna kick your butt.” Challengee: “Anytime you feel froggy, jump.” As in, jump in and the fight is on. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/7 "2005-03-26T22:30:02Z")
I thought it came from the old simile, “I’m feeling as fine as frog’s hair”, meaning something so exceedingly fine as to be imperceptible. If you shorten it, it became just “I’m feelin’ froggy tonight”. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/8 "2005-03-26T22:51:58Z")
I’ve always heard it in the same context as **Dan Turk** and **LouisB**. _“If you’re feelin’ froggy then jump, sucka!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Stan\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/9 "2005-03-26T23:48:52Z")
“Feelinfroggy” was my screenname on the Cartalk Car Questions boards for about 3 years. I heard it in a song called “Feelin’ Kinda Froggy” by the band **Nine Pound Hammer**. From the lyrics, I’d say Pulykamell’s link is right on. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/10 "2005-03-26T23:59:13Z")
Do you live in southwestern PA? There’s a country radio station here called Froggy that has “feelin’ froggy” as their catch phrase. I’ve never heard it in any other context. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-froggy-huh/296375/11 "2005-03-27T00:58:19Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > I’ve always heard it in the same context as **Dan Turk** and **LouisB**. > > _“If you’re feelin’ froggy then jump, sucka!”_ I agree with these two posts. In the exciting world of biker bars, it has been an expression for years. “Okay sumbitch, if you’re feelin’ froggy…JUMP!” This is the only way I’ve heard it used. In fact, there’s a bar on Main Street in Daytona Beach called Froggy’s. It think it was inspired by the expression. It was typically followed close behind by an “Attitude Adjustment”