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to be met with. in various parts of New England. This is only- one of many
outgrowths of the old superstition regarding the "venom" of the toad. The
Swabian folk medicine, according to Dr. Buck, credits toad-spittle with being very
poisonous, ...
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Halloween: A Grown-up's Guide to Creative Costumes, Devilish ...
Toad parts were said to be common ingredients in witch potions: Basque witches
reportedly used toad excrement in flying potions, toad spittle was part of a
common invisibility spell, and "toad's milk," a real hallucinogenic substance
secreted ...
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Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual ...
(16) ch'est mie dob- bave ét crapeud (Vasseur, Lettes 008) it.is not some spittle of
toad 'It's not toad's spittle' (17) Jé n' l'érouos point cru (Vasseur, Lettes 023) I neg
it.would.have not believed 'I would not have believed it' Ne deletion in spoken ...
Gillian Sankoff, Miriam Meyerhoff, Naomi Nagy, 2008
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A Portuguese-English Dictionary
de-cuco, cuckoo spit, toad spittle, frog spit, c.a. LINHO-DE-CUCO. cusso (m.) —
cosso. custa (/.) cost, expense, charge; (pi.) court costs. 4— alheia, at another's
expense, ft— -dn vidn, at the cost of custar 196 damar one's life, 4 — de, at the.
James Lumpkin Taylor, Priscilla Clark Martin, 1970
The toad burst out laughing and dribbled so much toad-spittle that the lily pads
got good and sticky. Super-Jojo rolled them up into nice little balls and, with a
perfectly innocent look on his face, offered them to the ogre, saying politely, “Bon
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Sophie De Mullenheim, Agnès Laroche, Séverine Onfroy, 2012
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An analytical dictionary of the English language, in which ...
Woodsare, or Frothspit, is a name given to a sort of white froth found, in the spring
, on the leaves of certain plants. In some countries, it is called Toad's-spittle ; but,
more generally, Cuckow-spit, from the ancient belief that it was the spittle of that ...
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Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey
Daisies budded and burst in the fields and frothy toad spittle appeared on the
stalks like a superabundance of vital sap bursting out. She had gotten some of it
on her ankles and on the hem of her skirt as they crossed the field. (HFH, 158-59)
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An analytical dictionary of the English language
Woodsare, or FROTH*piTi is a name given to a sort of white froth found, in the
spring, on the leaves of certain plants. In some countries, it is called Toad's-spittle
; but, more generally, Cuckow-spit, from the ancient belief that it was the spittle of
...
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An analytical Dictionary of the english language: in which ...
Woodsare, or Frothspit, is a name given to a sort of white froth found, in the spring
, on the leaves of certain plants. In some countries, it is called Toad's-spittle ; but,
more generally, Cuckow-spit, from the ancient belief that it was the spittle of that ...
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A general dictionary of provincialisms
Toad-spittle. Sussex. Hants. CUCKOLD, s. The plant, Burdock. Somerset.
CUDDIAN.s. [See cutty.] A wren. Devon. To CUDDLE, v. a. [Cadeler, Fr. old.] To
embrace. Craven. To CUDDLE, v. n. [Cadeler, Fr. old.] To lie close to another.
Sussex.
William Holloway (of Rye, in Sussex.), 1839
