Citations:shield-toad

English citations of shield-toad

  • 1956, Henry Goddard Leach, My last seventy years:
    I was particularly impressed by the, to me, exotic soups— the hot fruit soup, the chocolate soup, and particularly the thick mock turtle soup, called in Danish Forlorenskildpaddesuppe, which, literally translated means "Fake shield-toad soup."
  • 1995, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies:
    Here is another example of the phenomenon: Doug: The Germans call a tortoise a Schildkrote — literally, a "shield-toad". Carol; "Shield-toad"?! Come onl That's like' calling an eagle a "feather-cow"!
  • 2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops:
    From Dutch schildpad, meaning “turtle,” from schild (“shield”) and pad (“toad”), so literally “shieldtoad”; adopted in the seventeenth or eighteenth century and still used regionally.