twoad

"Pharaoh's a soft-'earted twoad to this wan," he declared gloomily.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Jedburgh justice o£ that sort rather savours of the method pursued by the famous countryman who was found cutting a harmless amphibian into a hundred pieces with his murderous spade, and saying spitefully as he did so, at every particularly savage cut: 'I'll larn ye to be a twoad, I will; I'll larn ye to be a twoad!'

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

-- Observe _z_ and _v_ for initial _s_ and _f_; _harnet_, hornet; _bittle_, beetle; _zet_, sat; _proper_, very; _twoad_, toad, wretch; _a_, he; _stinge_, sting; _bagganet_, bayonet.

English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873

“The moor is poor ground agriculturally, but rich in songs and stories and haunts aplenty: the jacky-twoad with his glowing head and the long-legged Old Stripe, the church grims and bahr-ghests that creep over the moor, seeking out the lone traveller, the troublesome pixies that lead one astray, and the dogs: the solitary black animals with glowing eyes or the pack of coal-black, fire-breathing hounds leading the dark huntsman and his silent mount.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

Look at thicky cat, breakin 'her heart, poor twoad! "

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

"You'm a queer twoad," said Thomasin, "an 'I doan't knaw what's come over

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

He only clapped his hands upon his knees, in a sort of uncouth ecstasy of spite, saying, "Down a comes vlump, like a twoad from roost.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863