frog and toe n.
1. London [Franklyn suggests that it was a destination towards which one travels on the frog under frog (and toad) n.].
Vulgar Tongue We will go to frog and toe. Thieves coming up to London with plunder. |
2. (US Und.) New York City.
Vocabulum 35: frog and toe The city of New-York. ‘Coves, let us frog and toe,’ coves, let us go to New-York. | ||
Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 3 Nov. 3: Dutch returned immediately to ‘frog and toe’ with a gay set of whiskers, which he had raised in ‘stur.’. | ||
Sl. Dict. (1890). |