puddock

The Prince thanked her heartily and went on his way in the best of spirits, while the little puddock crept slowly back into the water.

The Green Fairy Book 2003

A fine _fracas_ all this about a puddock-eating Frenchman!

Doom Castle Neil Munro

_ My lord, I ask pardon; I heard Esquire Martin say she looked like a puddock in the face; and so she did.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

She had a great face and hanging chops and a very bad colour like a puddock.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

In my fear I sat up amang my cairpets, like a puddock among gowan-leaves, and I listened wi 'a' my ears.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Wull ye sit there like a puddock on a post, an 'listen to this -- this Ayrshireman misca' your marriet wife, Alexander M'Quhirr?

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

But property 'ull rise in value like a puddock stool at dark, serr, if the pits come round it!

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

I can hear him say, "Hae some attempt at even Soothern manners, and dinna misca 'yer betters, ye young puddock, or I'll wring yer snoot!"

The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

Prince thanked her heartily and went on his way in the best of spirits, while the little puddock crept slowly back into the water.

The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

'Fine fighting -- when there's no getting you to handle a lance, except as if you wanted to drive a puddock with a reed!

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862