toadling
(ˈtəʊdlɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ling1.]
A young or little toad.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 495/1 Todelynge, bufonulus. 1779 Johnson in Mme. D'Arblay Diary Feb., I always knew you for a toadling. 1812–29 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 121 A Surinam toad with a swarm of toadlings sprouting out of its back and sides. 1883 Longm. Mag. Oct. 643 A young toadling once hibernated within the empty rose of a large watering-pot. |