Toadling

[f. as prec. + -LING¹.] A young or little toad.

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c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 495/1. Todelynge, bufonulus.

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1779. Johnson, in Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, Feb. I always knew you for a toadling.

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1812–29. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 121. A Surinam toad with a swarm of toadlings sprouting out of its back and sides.

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1883. Longm. Mag., Oct., 643. A young toadling once hibernated within the empty rose of a large watering-pot.

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