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quilkin

quilkin noun: a frog or toad.

Noun

quilkin (plural quilkins)

  1. (Cornwall, UK, obsolete) A frog or toad.
    • And make me eat quilkins and pagetepooes, / And woorship the Devel, and wear 'oaden shoes!1846, Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect (page 35)

Forms of quilkin

pluralquilkins

Origin of quilkin

Borrowed from Cornish kwilkyn (“frog”).

Questions about quilkin

What does quilkin mean?
Quilkin means a frog or toad.
What part of speech is quilkin?
Quilkin is a noun.
What is the plural of quilkin?
The plural of quilkin is quilkins.

Words near quilkin in the dictionary

  1. Quilicis
  2. Quilicura
  3. Quiling
  4. quilisma
  5. quilismata
  6. quilkin
  7. quilkins
  8. quill
  9. quill bit
  10. quill bits
  11. quill feather

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