† froud Obs.
Also 2 frude, -te, 3 frode, 5 frowde.
[ME. frūde (riming with prūde); see frog n.1]
A frog or toad.
| a 1200 Moral Ode 271 Þeor beð naddren and snaken eueten and frude [v. rr. fruden, frute]. a 1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Þe laðe helle wurmes, tadden ant froggen [v.r. froden] þe freoteð ham ut te ehnen. c 1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 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 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) 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. |