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paddock-stool

noun

Etymology

From Middle English paddocstol, paddok stule; equivalent to paddock (“frog; toad”) + stool.

  1. inherited from paddocstol

Definitions

  1. A toadstool.

    • The toad was popularly thought to impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings.
    • I asked an old woman in the fields this morning, pointing to a cluster of what we in the north-east corner call paddock-stools, and sometimes fairy-stools.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA