puddock

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He seized hold of it, Bill did the same, and then they set about the fight with more precision Come on, ye puddock-eater!"

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  • He seized hold of it, Bill did the same, and then they set about the fight with more precision Come on, ye puddock-eater!" —  The Battle and the Breeze
  • A fine fracas all this about a puddock-eating Frenchman! —  Doom Castle
  • The corbies ken the shape of his shoulders, as craftily he threads the wood; and let them build their domicile as high as the swinging twigs will bear its weight, agile as squirrel, and as foumart ferocious, up speels, by the height undizzied, the dreadless Dominie; and should there be fledged or puddock-haired young ones among the wool, whirling with guttural cawings down a hundred feet descent, on the hard rooty ground floor from which springs pine, oak, or ash, driven out is the life, with a squelsh and a squash, from the worthless carrion. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • 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
  • Would you mind coming with me just now to look at the puddock-stools? —  Penny Plain
 

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  1. Var. of paddock. Cf. equivalent purrock, variant of parrock.
 

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