A person being ill while leaning on a dyke while a toad relishes its breakfast of a greasy slug at the base of the wall.
The Scottish Word:

Puddock.

‘The diet of a puddock wid gar ye boke.’

Translate:

puddock: frog Rana or (in this illustration) toad Bufo vulgaris.

‘The diet of a toad is enough to make one vomit.’

The Scottish Word: puddock with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

(This is a Scotstober 2024 Word.)

All of the Scotstober words illustrated for week two are available to scroll through on a single page here.

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