† froudn.
Obsolete.
A frog or toad.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog
froshc1000
frouda1200
toada1300
paddockc1300
paddoc1480
hipfrog1611
croaker1651
Dutch nightingale1769
froggy?1800
fen-nightingalea1825
yellowbellyc1825
greenback1876
the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > toad
pad?a1160
frouda1200
podea1325
boterel1340
paddocka1425
frog1440
paddoc1480
crapaud1481
gangrel?a1513
hedge-frog1580
frog-paddock1651
hop-toad1827
a1200 Moral Ode 271 Þeor beð naddren and snaken eueten and frude [v.rr. fruden, frute].
a1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Þe laðe helle wurmes, tadden ant froggen [v.r. froden] þe freoteð ham ut te ehnen.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 209 He openyd his cofere in presence of his confessour, & fonde þer-in as manye frowdys as he putt þer-in almessis. Þe preest seyde, ‘here þou seest how almes of euyl getyn good plesyth god!’ þat man seyde, ‘..syth I falsly haue deuouryd þe peple of here good, þerfore þise frowdys schal deuowre my body qwyk’.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xlvi. 87/1 Some man hadde leuer for to mete with a froude or a frogge in the waye than to mete with a knyght or a squyre.
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