ETYMOLOGY
? in medieval folklore, toads were often considered abominable or unappealing
EXAMPLE
“… Baltazar. Sirra, you Salfa-Perilla Rascall, Toads-guts, you whorson pockey French Spawne of a bursten-bellyed Spyder, doe you heare, Monsire.
Medina. Why doe you barke and snap at my Narcissus, as if I were de Frenshe doag? …”
From: The Noble Souldier. Or, A Contract Broken, Justly Reveng’d. A Tragedy
By: Samuel Rowley, 1634
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