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First off, don't think you have to be a skinny swamp-loving tree frog. You could be a hulking bullfrog or gruff desert toad, providing different flavor.
One concept I have is a grippli who grew up in a swamp near a major city. The cities inhabitants had no love for the little tribe and used the swamp as a garbage/waste dump, but the grippli had nowhere else to go. So an adventurer of this tribe might be more selfish, prefer the more filthy or seedy parts of a town, or use his tounge in creative ways to get food/use Sleight of hand. For added fun, make the city Chelliax, so the waste the grippli grew up around may have been tainted by devil magic, which you could roleplay any number of ways, from the origin of a grippli sorcerer's bloodline or just an evil habit or 2.
A Yoda-style sensei monk.
An idealistic and excitable inquisitor focussed on converting others to his religion. Maybe a worshipper of Sarenrae for the redeeming aspect, maybe something more exotic.
A weathered hermit from the desert with a gun.
An alchemist in an altered state of mind more often than not, with a pride in the products which can be derived from the swamp.
I ran a game where two IRL brothers played twin Grippli Gunslingers.
I have made a crane style monk grippli. He typicallycrawled along the walls and leapt down at key points to block passage/hinder spell casters. Not much use for the tongue in this build honestly, unless houserule lets you punch with it, but i liked the climb speed and increased stealth and acrobastics. Using all the Crane stance feats, i stopped the tail swing attack of a dinosaur, i think it was a triceratops or something, epic for a 2' tall PC.
You'd be a fine Zen Archer, Mr. Frog.
I like the Grippli Alchemist archetype. Produces his own poison(which is pretty effective, btw), he can swim while his mutagen (highly recommend feral mutagen with the Dex boost and use Weapon Finesse with his natural attacks...the guy won't miss!) is active...net proficiency is nice, but I doubt he could entangle anyone larger than medium size. Having a climb speed is always nice--shouldn't need Climb checks. The Agile tongue is fun for Sleight of Hand tricks and whatever else you can imagine.
I once made a grippli druid which was quite good, and a friend of mine in the same game made a reflavored hexcrafter magus, instead of the hair hex he used his tongue, and instead of flight he had crazy jumping, the druid was fun with I believe the weather domain, nets and the wind buffet, always had something to do.
A net-wielding inquisitor with EPIC CROAKS!