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(noun) - (1) A frog; otherwise called a March-bird. It is that month when frogs are vocal.
--Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
(2) Fen-nightingales, toads and frogs, from their continued croaking at night. From fen, swamp.
--John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
January 16, 2018