puddock

British  

/ ˈpʌdək /

noun

1. a Scot variant of paddock 2

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puddock

Brown is of a generation with my parents, and grew up calling a chimney a lum, an ear a lug, a frog a puddock, and the likes of David Cameron, a sleekit skellum.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010

Now gawkies, tawpies, gowks, and fools, Frae colleges and boarding-schools, May sprout like simmer puddock stools In glen or shaw; He wha could brush them down to mools, Willie’s awa!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Sister Jeanie, haste, we'll go To whare the white-starred gowans grow, Wi' the puddock flower o' gowden hue.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller

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

From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

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

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James