Paddock-stool
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paddock-stool is a noun meaning (chiefly Scotland) A toadstool.
Meaning
(chiefly Scotland) A toadstool.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Sometimes, when Jack happened to be in a humorous frame, he would seat himself at the bottom of the sea on one of the brain-corals, as if he were seated on a large paddock-stool, and then make faces at me, in order, if possible, to make me laugh under water.
Word Forms
- paddock-stools
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stool, paddock, stowp, cutty-stool, faldstool, stookie.
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