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quilkins

quilkins is the plural of quilkin.

Meaning of quilkin

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)

Questions about quilkins

What is quilkins the plural of?
Quilkins is the plural of quilkin.

Words near quilkins in the dictionary

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

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