释义 |
toadling|ˈtəʊdlɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ling1.] A young or little toad.
c1440Promp. Parv. 495/1 Todelynge, bufonulus. 1779Johnson in Mme. D'Arblay Diary Feb., I always knew you for a toadling. 1812–29Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 121 A Surinam toad with a swarm of toadlings sprouting out of its back and sides. 1883Longm. Mag. Oct. 643 A young toadling once hibernated within the empty rose of a large watering-pot. |