Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paddock-stool

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: pad-dock--s-tool
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"The toad was popularly thought to impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings."
"I asked an old woman in the fields this morning, pointing to a cluster of what we in the north-east corner call paddock-stools, and sometimes fairy-stools."
"Sometimes, when Jack happened to be in a humorous frame, he would seat himself at the bottom of the sea on one of the brain-corals, as if he were seated on a large paddock-stool, and then make faces at me, in order, if possible, to make me laugh under water."

Etymology

From Middle English paddocstol, paddok stule; equivalent to paddock (“frog; toad”) + stool.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: paddocstol

Inflected Forms

paddock-stools (plural)

Questions

What does paddock-stool mean?: A toadstool.
Where does paddock-stool come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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