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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2019-04-11 07:44 am

bloodnoun

bloodnoun (BLUHD-nown) - n., (SE US, esp. South Carolina) a bullfrog.


Which is a large frog (Rana catesbeiana or Lithobates catesbeianus) native to southern and eastern United States and southeastern Canada, as well as introduced elsewhere in the world, with a deep resonant croak. The original of this regionalism (first recorded in the early 1910s) is unknown, but it has an alternate form of bloody noun.

Bloodnoun or bullfrog? -- you decide!
Thanks, WikiMedia!

---L.