quilkin

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noun

A frog or toad.

OriginCornish kwilkyn →
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Meanings

nounquilkin (plural quilkins)

plural quilkins

  1. CornwallUKobsoleteA 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)

Origin

  1. Cornishkwilkyn“frog”
  2. Englishquilkin

Borrowed from Cornish kwilkyn (“frog”).

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APA

quilkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quilkin

MLA

“quilkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quilkin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quilkin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quilkin.

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