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Shield-toad

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A turtle or tortoise. nonstandard, rare

    "But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield."

Etymology

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).

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