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quilkin

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quilkin (plural quilkins)

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