What does the Scottish word puddock mean?
a frog or toad. Also called (Scot): puddock

I saw this puddock in Rodney Street, Edinburgh today. Very close to the aptly named Puddocky. #edinburghwalks #edinburgh #puddock #frog

A black-and-white picture of a gray heron inside a pond.

A gray hern snaikin aboot fer puddocks an wee fishies.

(A'm nae native spikker)

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Kate Armstrong Pantoum fer Winter doun riven the tint braith mawkin scribbles owre the snaw wee arles o sun-daith water warstles wechty, slaw mawkin scribbles owre the snaw sternies bou tae the mockrife mune water warstles wechty, slaw nou the taid an puddock sloum sternies bou tae the mockrife mune houlets hunker saft as haar nou the taid an puddock sloum grippit fest in dwinin lair houlets hunker saft as haar winter’s nieve is cauld an sterk grippit fest in dwinin lair aa maun learn tae dree the mirk winter’s nieve is cauld an sterk doun riven the tint braith aa maun learn tae dree the mirk wee arles o sun daith

mawkin scribbles owre the snaw
sternies bou tae the mockrife mune
water warstles wechty, slaw
nou the taid an puddock sloum …

—Kate Armstrong, “Pantoum fer Winter”
in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2016)
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Noo, lik a wee puddock frae the pownd at the pairk, a lowp aroond tae find new watters tae sattle intae. Oan the inside, but. The streetches A explore git langer, the watters become clearer.

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